the DIB<\/a>\u00a0was first set up in 2016 to produce independent recommendations to Defense Department leadership regarding emerging technologies and associated policies and innovative approaches.<\/p>\n\u201c[One] topic to be tackled is a problem getting a lot of coverage in the press. In many cases, U.S.-made drones are failing in the Ukraine as Russia\u2019s brutal invasion grinds on. And so we\u2019ll also be thinking about how the military can develop more effective and less expensive drones, and how we can spur the market to produce a whole heck of a lot more of them. And we\u2019ll be looking forward to getting to work on those potential new studies,\u201d Bloomberg said before concluding the panel\u2019s public meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
In the roundtable with reporters, Phillips elaborated on how drone tech was the \u201cone area that kept coming up\u201d during the closed portion of the DIB\u2019s discussion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe obvious thing is that the U.S. drones that we\u2019ve sent [over to Ukraine] have not been effective. They\u2019re too expensive. They get jammed all the time. And so, the ones that are working seem to come from other countries. So we have to learn to manufacture them at a much lower cost, not over-spec them, and basically design for the issues that they see on the ground there,\u201d the retired Marine Corps captain explained.<\/p>\n
Phillips said part of the meeting focused on ways the U.S. can better build drone technology at scale.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe inventory levels are low. We\u2019re using 10,000 drones a month in Ukraine. So multiply that \u2014 if we get something larger for the U.S., we need hundreds of thousands, or millions over time. And so we need to reset the scale of how we\u2019re thinking about it and then learn to manufacture more cheaply,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the companies there manufactures composites. And so there\u2019s a better way of manufacturing them to make them cheaper and lighter than we\u2019re doing right now. So, that was another theme,\u201d Phillips added.<\/p>\n
Among other topics discussed was how to get drone-makers of all sizes easier access to partnerships or associated pathways for working with Pentagon components.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the drone companies talked about their investment, which was tens of millions of dollars, and in hopes that they believed in what they\u2019re doing and they did a lot of testing on the commercial side for commercial application \u2014 but they invested tens of millions in hopes that they would get a contract [with DOD]. There\u2019s a lot of people that just can\u2019t do that. So, how do you close that? And how do you have an understanding about what it takes to run a business, literally inside the [Pentagon] building, particularly as we\u2019ve got to go so quickly now to meet the technological challenges that are at the speed that\u2019s out there?\u201d Mullen said.<\/p>\n
In response to follow-up questions on Thursday, a DIB spokesperson noted that the board \u201cheld preparatory sessions to inform future work and these sessions are closed to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs such we are unable to share the names of the companies\u201d that attended, the official told DefenseScoop.<\/p>\n
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