FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Naval Vision: Operations and Autonomous Vehicle Applications -- 3 Autonomy Technology: Capabilities and Potential -- 4 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Capabilities and Potential -- 5 Unmanned Surface and Undersea Vehicles: Capabilities and Potential -- 6 Unmanned Ground Vehicles: Capabilities and Potential -- 7 Integrating Autonomy in Network-Centric Operations -- Appendixes -- A Biographies of Committee Members and Staff -- B Some Physics-Based Constraints on Autonomous Vehicles: Scaling, Energy, Sensing, and Communications -- C Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: System Descriptions -- D Acronyms and Abbreviations.