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Living Through COVID-19 and Global Change

04/21/2021
By Defense.info Media Team

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Sustaining Machines: Logistics and Autonomous Systems

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The recent Williams Foundation Seminar on Next Generation Autonomous Systems (NGAS) provided insights with regard to…

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