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 ...

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks Feb. 21, 2024, at a conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office. Hicks' signature ...

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks begins her keynote speech Feb. 21, 2024, at a conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office.

Some U.S. military units have completed training on cheap drones produced under the Replicator project, a milestone for the Pentagon's flagship innovation-at-scale effort, the deputy defense secretary ...

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 ...

The second phase of the Pentagon’s make-more-stuff-quickly effort will kick off in the 2026 budget request, a memo says. A second phase of Replicator—the Pentagon’s year-old, high-profile effort to ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has sent Congress a classified request to shift $300 million in funds to speed development and purchasing of its first Replicator drones, an effort to field thousands of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Can you kill a bear with a thousand paper cuts or slay a dragon with an armada of toy boats? Many a wargame I have participated in suggests you can. Beyond rolling dice and questioning salvo exchange ...

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 ...