 A new $68 million cooperative agreement between the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory, the University of Maryland College Park, and the University of Maryland Baltimore County could lead a smarter artificial intelligence, wearable technology, and resilient capabilities for military unmanned robotic systems. The cooperative agreement is called Artemis, and it stands for AI and Autonomy for Multi-Agent Systems. The effort brings together a collaboration of nearly 30 diverse experts in engineering, robotics, computer science, operations research, modeling and simulation, and cybersecurity. Well, it's really exciting to us, and it makes perfect sense for us to partner, you know, ARL and Adelphi is literally just down the road from College Park, and all these unique facilities, including Grace's Quarters and Aberdeen, it just makes perfect sense for us to partner, and we're really thrilled to do it. The cooperative agreement will enable us to really advance that. Artemis has three main research thrusts. The first thrust is collaborative autonomy, so looking at multi-agent systems and how they can cooperate with one another. The second thrust is harnessing the big data revolution. And so you've probably heard of the Internet of Things. Well, there's also an Internet of Battlefield things. Not surprisingly, soldiers can wear devices just like Fitbits and other things, and so we'll be researching that. And the third thrust is the human machine teaming. For every autonomous system, there's always a human somewhere in the loop. The question is how much do you delegate to the robot and how much do you delegate to the human? And so that interface is something that we're going to be researching as well. Academic researchers will work with ARL researchers on an initial 18 projects, each supported by a team of faculty, staff and students. This cooperative agreement will involve over 100 university faculty and ARL researchers over the next five years. Outcomes of this partnership are expected to also advance science and technology for future search and rescue missions after a catastrophic natural disaster.