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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Army is eyeing a mix of existing and new technology to potentially scale through the second iteration of the Pentagon’s ...

The contractor supplying Switchblade loitering munitions to the Defense Department under the first phase of the Replicator initiative has delivered “hundreds” of systems to a customer who has fielded ...

A second wave of Replicator program acquisitions will focus exclusively on counter-small uncrewed aircraft systems (C-sUAS) starting in fiscal 2026, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a 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 ...

Defense officials consistently tout the Replicator initiative — an ambitious effort to “swarm” thousands of attritable, inexpensive drones at a break-neck pace to counter China — as a great success.

Exemplifying the Department’s focus on harnessing the value of commercial technology to solve critical operational challenges, the first iteration of the Replicator initiative has reached an execution ...

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 Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks begins her keynote speech Sept. 6, 2023, at the Defense News Conference in Pentagon City. (Colin Demarest/C4ISRNET) TAMPA, Fla. — The Pentagon will decide later ...