As warfare looks to the future and the need for the internet of military things (IoMT) grows, we discuss how autonomy fits into this paradigm. We define common terms relating to autonomy to promote common understanding between autonomy developers, and we analyze a variety of autonomy architectures, examining what they do correctly to support IoMT and where they fall short. We discuss our general philosophy concerning autonomy – that it must be multi-layered to be effective – and provide an overview for our Modular, Extensible, Interoperable Autonomy architecture that supports IoMT and the future of warfare.

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Anthony Bloch, Patrick V. Haggerty, Matt Menard, Greg Osborn, Giabo Sanchies, and Benjamin Strasser, "Modular, extensible, interoperable autonomy: an autonomy architecture for the Internet of Military Things and the future of warfare," Proc. SPIE 12544, Open Architecture/Open Business Model Net-Centric Systems and Defense Transformation 2023, 125440S (Presented at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing: May 04, 2023; Published: 12 June 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2660255.