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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      A robot and a military working dog pose.Robot dogs arrive at Tyndall AFB
                        
                        
                        Sunny, a 325th Security Forces Squadron military working dog, poses next to a Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicle at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., March 24, 2021. While the Q-UGV is also known as a robot dog, the computerized canine is not meant to replace MWDs, but rather to add an extra layer of security to the installation’s force protection posture. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Anabel Del Valle)
                
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                        Master Sgt. Krystoffer Miller, 325th Security Forces Squadron operations support superintendent, operates a Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicle at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., March 24, 2021. The purpose of the Q-UGV is to add an extra level of protection to base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Anabel Del Valle)
                
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                        Master Sgt. Krystoffer Miller, 325th Security Forces Squadron operations support superintendent, operates a Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicle at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., March 24, 2021. The purpose of the Q-UGV is to add an extra level of protection to base. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Anabel Del Valle)
                
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Robot dogs arrive at Tyndall AFBPublished March 29, 2021
                    
                    By Airman 1st Class Anabel Del Valle
                    
                    
                    325th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
            **TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) --**The first official semi-autonomous robot dogs were delivered to **Tyndall Air Force Base** March 22 for integration into the **325th Security Forces Squadron**.
The purpose of the Quad-legged Unmanned Ground Vehicles, or Q-UGVs, is to add an extra level of protection to the base. The robot dogs, designed by **Ghost Robotics** and **Immersive Wisdom**, are the first of their kind to be integrated onto a military installation and one of many innovation-based initiatives to begin at Tyndall AFB, coined the “**Installation of the Future**.”
“As a mobile sensor platform, the Q-UGVs will significantly increase situational awareness for defenders,” said Mark Shackley, Tyndall AFB Program Management Office security forces program manager. “They can patrol the remote areas of a base while defenders can continue to patrol and monitor other critical areas of an installation.”
Features applied to the robot dogs allow for easy navigation on difficult terrains. The robot dogs can operate in minus 40-degree to 131-degree conditions and have 14 sensors to create 360-degree awareness. They are also equipped with a crouch mode that lowers their center-of-gravity and a high-step mode that alters leg mobility, among other features.
Tyndall AFB’s **Program Management Office**, the 325th SFS, the **325th Civil Engineer Squadron**, **Air Force Research Laboratory**, communications and other organizations have been working since July 2020 to ensure the Q-UGVs are assembled properly before reaching Tyndall AFB. The installation is considered an ideal base to host the new robot dogs with its ongoing rebuild.
“Tyndall (AFB) is a perfect test base as it was deemed ‘The Installation of the Future,’” said Master Sgt. Krystoffer Miller, 325th SFS operations support superintendent. “Across the base, every squadron has been pushing the envelope of how we do things and expanding our optics of what is possible. One huge attraction piece of the robot dogs is that it’s highly mobile and with the amount of construction we will face over the next few years, it helps us maintain and increase our security posture.”
This new technology has the capability to revolutionize the way base security operates. Tyndall AFB is expected to set the benchmark for the rest of the Defense Department when it comes to Q-UGV usage.
“I can say that there is definitely a lot of interest in the capabilities of the technology,” Miller said. “I’m hopeful that other units will see some of the successes at Tyndall (AFB) and will continue to explore the use of non-conventional tactics.”LR 



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