May 12, 2017
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CAMP ROBERTS, Calif. More than 40 cadets and midshipmen from the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, and the U.S. Air Force Academy recently participated in the "Service Academies Swarm Challenge," in which teams formed and tested the capabilities of swarms of highly autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) invited the young officers-in-training to develop and flight test novel ideas for how best to use UAV swarms in future wars.The three-day experiment concluded with an aerial battle in which the Naval Academy took home the win, a trophy, and bragging rights over its rival academies.