Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks begins her keynote speech Sept. 6, 2023, at the Defense News Conference in Pentagon City. (Colin Demarest/Staff) ARLINGTON, Va. — Deputy Defense Secretary ...

The US military announced the Replicator initiative as the latest effort to overcome the production valley of death to speed up and make thousands of all-domain attritable autonomous systems. This ...

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Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include information from a Pentagon spokesperson. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon committed on Monday to fielding thousands of attritable, autonomous systems ...

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded contracts to seven companies to develop software to connect the thousands of drones it plans to buy through Replicator. (Pvt. 2nd Class James Newsome/Army) The ...

The Pentagon announced it wants to acquire thousands of attritable autonomous systems like the Teal 2 ISR drone seen here to counter China's quantitative military advantage. The Department of Defense ...

The Pentagon is getting new drones for its ambitious Replicator program, which is designed to field thousands of autonomous systems by August 2025. The Department of Defense said last week that ...

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has chosen Carlsbad, California-based Viasat to provide command and control connectivity across unmanned systems in support of the DIU’s Replicator effort, according ...

Combating small drones is the top priority for Replicator’s next phase, according to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who offered a look into the future of the initiative in a September memo.

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The Department of Defense’s effort to field thousands of autonomous drones has reached a major execution milestone. The Army’s Switchblade-600 loitering munition, built by AeroVironment, has been ...

The war in Ukraine has shown the value of low-cost drone swarms in modern warfare. Now the Pentagon is planning to build an army of thousands of small, cheap drones in hopes of spurring U.S. drone ...