The Navy Spent Billions On A Robot Delivery Fleet. It Ended Up In A Ghost Kitchen Civil War
A GAO report on the Navy's troubled robot ship program reveals a cautionary tale for food tech. Internal battles and slow adoption are billion-dollar mistakes.
By Foodie Pundit Newsroom - Published - Updated - Section: Food Tech
Key points
- The U.S. Navy's multi-billion dollar plan to develop a
- fleet of robotic and autonomous ships is being severely hampered by internal dysfunction.
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- A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds that legacy programs, like aircraft carriers, consistently win funding battles against new autonomous systems, starving innovation.
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- The Navy's development process is too slow for the modern world, failing to adopt the faster, iterative approaches used by commercial tech companies.
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