The Pentagon's drive to deploy increasing numbers of remotely piloted, unmanned aircraft in war zones is causing a manpower crunch, reports the
Dayton Daily News.
Now, Air Force and Wright State University researchers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where key UAV programs are managed, are trying to effectively automate many of the operating functions so the UAVs can fly themselves and allow a single human operator to oversee multiple craft at once.
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