MCAS Miramar, as a part of the Marine Corps’ Mobility Transformation effort, is exploring innovative options to make transportation smarter, cheaper, more accessible and more efficient. This initiative seeks to engage industry stakeholders, collect market research, execute and analyze demonstrations catered to installation characteristics, and share information to enable installations to create local solutions.
MCAS Miramar is scheduled to host a number of projects that will showcase the installation’s commitment to mobility transformation, energy security, resilience and innovation. A collaborative agreement facilitated by SSCPAC in San Diego initiated the first project. In this project MCAS Miramar will facilitate autonomous vehicle testing by industry stakeholders, to include Qualcomm Technologies.
“We hope to be able to integrate these types of systems into our combat forces and into our garrison forces and that they will allow us to bring broader and more diverse technology to the Marine Corps and the military,” said Col. Jason G. Woodworth, commanding officer of MCAS Miramar.
Federal, state and local government stakeholders and industry representatives met to discuss regional and Marine Corps autonomous vehicle proving grounds, to watch autonomous vehicles begin testing, and to tour the air station at MCAS Miramar, Feb. 21.
The representatives came from the San Diego Association of Governments, California Department of Motor Vehicles, California Department of Transportation, California Energy Commission, California Highway Patrol, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., and MCAS Miramar.
A full story regarding the testing is available at https://www.dvidshub.net/news/266746/autonomous-vehicle-testing-begins-mcas-miramar
B-Roll of autonomous vehicle testing and interviews with Col. Jason G. Woodworth, commanding officer of MCAS Miramar and Paul Guckian, the vice president of Engineering for Qualcomm Technologies, is available at https://www.dvidshub.net/video/585899/autonomous-vehicle-testing-begins-mcas-miramar-b-roll
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