托尼·卡帕乔报道——据参议院军事委员会一名成员透露，国防部长皮特·赫格塞斯正在五角大楼设立一个新机构，负责管理和部署无人机及国防机器人。
By Tony Capaccio Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is setting up a new organization in the Pentagon to manage and deploy drones and defense robotics, according to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“基本上，自主系统和广义上的机器人技术将被纳入一个更加集中、更强大的组织架构，而不是目前这种随机、分散的‘想买什么就买什么，然后自己想办法’的结构，”蒙大拿州共和党参议员蒂姆·希伊对彭博新闻社表示。
“Basically, autonomous systems and robotics writ large are going to be placed in a more centralized and powerful organizational structure, instead of this random, dis-aggregated ‘buy what you want and figure it out’ structure,” Republican Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana told Bloomberg News.
“这将成为国防部真正的工作重点，”希伊周三在弗吉尼亚州匡蒂科海军陆战队基地举行的国防行业会议间隙表示。赫格塞斯随后在该基地发表了所谓的“部队状况”演讲。
“It’s going to be a true focus of the department,” Sheehy said on the sidelines of a defense sector conference on Wednesday before Hegseth delivered his so-called State of the Force speech at the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia.
五角大楼正寻求在2027财年预算中为其国防自主战争小组拨款546亿美元。
The Pentagon is seeking $54.6 billion for its Defense Autonomous Warfare Group in the 2027 fiscal year budget.
希伊表示，新架构旨在成为永久性机构，而非像“特遣部队”那样的临时组织，不过他补充说，新架构不会创建一个新的军种分支。
The new structure is intended to be permanent in nature instead of a temporary organization like a “task force,” Sheehy said, though he added the new structure won’t create a new service branch.
赫格塞斯已提升了美军在规划和行动中对无人机及反无人机技术的运用，包括部署了一支名为“蝎子特遣部队”的 unit，使用基于伊朗“沙赫德”系统的攻击无人机。
Hegseth has elevated the US military’s use of drones and counter-drone technologies in planning and operations, including the deployment of a unit — Task Force Scorpion — using an attack drone based off of Iran’s Shahed system.
尽管自2月28日战争爆发以来遭受了猛烈轰炸，美军在中东地区仍难以阻止伊朗向波斯湾发射大量廉价单向攻击无人机的能力。
Despite intense bombardment during the war that started on Feb. 28, US forces in the Middle East have struggled to halt Iran’s ability to send volleys of cheap one-way attack drones across the Persian Gulf.