May 22, 2025
Since the DARPA Grand Challenge kicked off more than 20 years ago, the Department of Defense has been very publicly invested in creating the capabilities necessary for ground vehicles to travel autonomously in areas without roads, signs, maps, or even GPS signals.
The Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program is creating platform agnostic autonomy capable of operating in complex, mission-relevant, off-road environments that are significantly more unpredictable than on-road conditions.
We spoke with Stuart Young, program manager for RACER and Trent Mills, a Colonel in the U.S. Army and special assistant to the DARPA director for the latest episode of Voices from DARPA.
