Automated functions are intended to be linked with small electric drives attached to the main landing gear, which would provide power to move planes instead of relying on engines that burn expensive jet fuel.
Those systems, many designed without security in mind, are vulnerable to cyber attacks that have the potential to blow up city blocks, erase bank data, crash planes and cut power to large sections of the country.
They also favor naval power, but ships take a much longer time than planes to get places in the vast expanses of the Western Pacific, and the Navy has little in the way of long-range aircraft.