CRUSER – “From Technical to Ethical…From Concept Generation to Experimentation…”

At the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, the Consortium for Robotics and Unmanned Systems Education and Research (CRUSER) was stood up at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, March 2011. CRUSER has developed a forum that incorporates all aspects of Unmanned Systems including ethical issues concerning unmanned systems, manpower, acquisition cost, as well as the varied technical aspects. The specific CRUSER goals are to: Provide a source for unmanned systems employment concepts for operations and technical research; Provide an experimentation program to evaluate unmanned system employment concepts; Provide a venue for Navy-wide education in unmanned systems; Provide a Navy-wide forum for collaborative education, research, and experimentation in unmanned systems.