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Knowledge, Awareness, Learning & Skills (KALS)
While unmanned systems have been providing useful services for decades, it is only since around 2000 that advances in computing, power and materials technologies are enabling increasingly rapid growth in unmanned systems capabilities and thus applications.
As with the introduction of any new technology (eg steam engines, railway trains, automobiles, internal combustion, electricity, telephone, television, powered flight, microwave ovens, computing, internet, web) there is a lag between the existence of the capability and widespread adoption by business and the public at large. Sometimes new technologies are taken up for use in unpredictable ways, sometimes resulting in disappointment, frustration and waste.
In order to assist the timely and efficient exploitation of unmanned systems for global benefit, CCUVS is playing its part in assembling as much relevant knowledge as possible, in raising awareness of how unmanned systems can add value and in developing learning and skills within the educational system and the workplace.
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