DARPA Wants to Dot Ocean Floor with Network of Robotic Pods that can Spy, Explore

The Upward Falling Payload (UFP) project, as DARPA calls it, centers on pre-deploying deep-ocean nodes years in advance in forward areas which can be remotely commanded to launch to the surface. "The objective of the UFP program is to realize a new approach for enabling forward deployed unmanned distributed systems that can provide non-lethal effects or situation awareness over large maritime areas," DARPA stated.

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"Awareness" they call it.

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I don't see what the problem is exactly. This sounds like an automated equivalent of the old SOSUS system from the cold war.