Three companies will produce prototype software to control the massive drone swarms envisioned by the Replicator rapid-production initiative, the Defense Innovation Unit announced on Wednesday. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Pentagon has unveiled its latest strategy to counter China’s rapid military progress, with a program named Replicator that intends to focus on fielding “thousands” of attritable autonomous ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will select its first candidates for Replicator, an initiative to field thousands of drones in the next 24 months, within the next several weeks. Deputy Secretary of Defense ...
From left, Skydio CEO Adam Bry demonstrates the company's autonomous systems technology for Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and Doug Beck, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, during a ...
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 ...
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 ...
SAN DIEGO — The first iteration of lethal swarms of unmanned vehicles and the software that binds them together is set to reach viability by August, Navy officials said on Tuesday. The Replicator ...
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 during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Sept. 22, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP) WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will select its first candidates for ...
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