{"id":31812,"date":"2018-03-26T16:21:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/26\/raytheon-darpa-developing-technology-to-control-drone-swarms\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:23:09","slug":"raytheon-darpa-developing-technology-to-control-drone-swarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/unmanned\/2018\/03\/26\/raytheon-darpa-developing-technology-to-control-drone-swarms\/","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon, DARPA developing technology to control drone swarms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 Raytheon is developing technology for soldiers to control unmanned vehicle<\/a> swarms with voice and gesture commands, according to a company news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technology is being developed under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency\u2019s Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics, or OFFSET, program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raytheon\u2019s BBN Technologies division is developing a visual interface that allows for \u201cdrag and drop\u201d creation and manipulation of swarm tactics, a game-based simulator to evaluate those tactics, and a physical swarm test bed to perform live tactics evaluation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

DARPA has also awarded contracts<\/a> to Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Lockheed Martin for the OFFSET program. These Phase 1 contracts are part of the program\u2019s \u201cswarm sprints\u201d and an effort to enable rapid development by leveraging and combining emerging swarm technology. Swarm sprints focus on five key areas: swarm tactics, swarm autonomy, human-swarm teaming, virtual environment and physical test bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raytheon\u2019s swarming technology will be applied by DARPA in unmanned systems meant for multiple domains<\/a>, not only unmanned aerial systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\t