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 ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon announced on Wednesday that it will add two new types of drones and more networking software to its ambitious Replicator initiative aimed at rapidly putting thousands of ...

Replicator, the Pentagon’s effort to buy and field thousands of drones by next August, is closer than ever to its first round of funding. Congress just released the final text of its long-delayed ...

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded contracts to seven companies to develop software to connect the thousands of drones it plans to buy through Replicator. (Pvt. 2nd Class James Newsome/Army) The ...

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.

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 ...

The Pentagon's "Replicator" program, announced last year, is an ambitious effort to quickly muster and deploy large numbers of cheap drones within 18 to 24 months. Hicks told reporters at the Pentagon ...

In August, the Pentagon announced an ambitious, two-year plan to develop thousands of drones to swarm and overwhelm China’s much larger arsenal of weapons — and do it cheaply. Four months later, no ...