Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot Program at Risk of Collapse.

The article reports that the U.S. Army and Air Force officers are calling the future of the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robotic System (AEODRS) program into question after the Navy failed to field a next generation of inter-service bomb disposal robots. Topics mentioned include features of AEODRS, commitment of U.S. Marine Corps Major Curtis Smith to the AEODRS program, and the impact of technical issues writing contracts for the open architecture system on the AEODRS program.