One of the most rapidly growing areas of innovative technology adoption involves unmanned systems. The U.S. military’s use of these systems—especially armed unmanned systems—is not only changing the face of modern warfare, but is also altering the process of decision-making in combat operations. As military unmanned systems have become more autonomous, concerns have surfaced regarding a potential “dark side” of having armed unmanned systems make life-or-death decisions. This panel will address how the military and industry might harness big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning to design unmanned systems to provide the military not with completely autonomous systems, but with systems with augmented intelligence that will offer the “in-the-loop” operator enhanced warfighting effectiveness.