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I'm John Batchford, the unmanned platforms for the United States Navy.

Now testing.

This is the Navy of the future, a combination of manned and unmanned warcraft that are moving

in underwater, on the surface and in the air and in orbit.

All of this coming together.

The testing is now, and I welcome Captain Jerry Hendrix, US Navy retired.

He is writing most recently at the US Naval Institute of what he calls Area 52.

We have unmanned platforms.

We have secrets to share.

We have things to learn.

The game here is to build a robot that obeys you in combat.

And we have a challenge, which is security.

We know one of our major adversaries has sticky fingers.

So I welcome Captain Hendrix.

Right now, the unmanned platforms have been tested for several years, I take it, in various

places across the Navy's reach.

Where, Jerry?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John.

Well, we've been testing for about the last four or five years.

We took our initial platforms, and we went to the Southern California operations area,

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