{"id":70300,"date":"2017-06-08T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/darpa-transformer-drones-change-their-mission-hardware-mid-flight"},"modified":"2017-06-08T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T16:23:27","slug":"darpa-transformer-drones-change-their-mission-hardware-mid-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/darpa-transformer-drones-change-their-mission-hardware-mid-flight","title":{"rendered":"DARPA \u2018transformer\u2019 drones change their mission hardware mid-flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-transformer-drones-change-their-mission-hardware-mid-flight.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>DARPA has unveiled a system that transforms its unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into warfare machines capable of conducting different missions without human intervention.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the announcement, the compact drones were only able to carry a single-function payload, which limited their abilities to one specific task in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new effort, called Converged Collaborative Elements for RF Task Operations (CONCERTO), has provided the UAS with a flexible RF architecture that uses shared hardware \u2013 allowing the devices to swap missions mid-flight.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4582138\/DARPA-drones-change-mission-hardware-mid-flight.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4582138\/DARPA...light.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA has unveiled a system that transforms its unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into warfare machines capable of conducting different missions without human intervention. Prior to the announcement, the compact drones were only able to carry a single-function payload, which limited their abilities to one specific task in the field. Now, a new effort, called Converged [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}