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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Navy SEAL fires a Switchblade 300 Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System during a training exercise om 2023. (U.S. Navy) (Mass ...

Chairman Gallagher, Ranking Member Khanna, and other distinguished members of the subcommittee, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to testify this morning on DOD’s Replicator initiative. On ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — Clint Hinote didn’t expect to change his mind. He was back at the Pentagon in August, for the first time since ...

The Pentagon’s flagship program to quickly produce large numbers of low-cost, highly autonomous drones is “producing real results,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said in a statement Thursday ...

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks at the National Defense Industrial Association's Emerging Technologies conference Monday, August 28, 2023 in Washington. She announced Replicator ...

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 ...

A U.S. Navy SEAL fires a Switchblade 300 Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System during training. (MC1 Chelsea D. Meiller/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Army is poised to be the largest player in the first round ...

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.

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 ...