One of our jobs is to keep a thumb on the pulse of what are the technology needs for national security.

For one of our sensor projects, we had the sensor mounted onto a all-terrain ground vehicle.

In just about six weeks, we designed our whole own autonomous system that could drop in to a pretty full-size all-terrain vehicle, and then have a user operate the vehicle remotely, then also upload missions to that vehicle.

And the vehicle would drive by itself through different terrains, different conditions, and it was very reliable.

It had a lot of safety features, and it just pretty much worked right away after only about six weeks of work.

Because we wanna move these vehicles to work together collaboratively, so almost have a swarm of these vehicles, but also have these vehicles operate missions, and not just be controlled by a remote controller, but are actually moving autonomously.

Some of these operations could be dangerous, and how it's taking our war fighters out of harm's way, that's really rewarding to see how that could actually make a huge difference for a lot of lives of Americans.

It multiplies complexity, and managing that complexity is part of the challenge.