The Department of Defense aims to transform the battlefield with advanced autonomous systems through its ambitious and potentially game-changing Replicator initiative. This program seeks to rapidly ...

Ukrainians who read the newly released details of the Pentagon's giant Replicator drone effort may well have said, "Hey, that's what we're doing." "The first tranche of Replicator capabilities include ...

Replicator, unveiled on August 28, 2023, is a Department of Defense (DOD) initiative, led by DOD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), to field thousands of uncrewed systems by August 2025. Replicator’s ...

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 ...

U.S. Marines operate a Skydio X2 drone at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, April 2022. (Staff Sgt. Akeel Austin/U.S. Marine Corps) Six months into its effort to field thousands of attritable, autonomous ...

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Sept. 22, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP) WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will select its first candidates for ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Clint Hinote didn’t expect to change his mind. He was back at the Pentagon in August, for the first time since retiring this year. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks had asked to ...

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 ...

Replicator, unveiled on August 28, 2023, is a Department of Defense (DOD) initiative, led by DOD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), to field thousands of uncrewed systems by August 2025. Replicator’s ...