ARLINGTON, Va. — Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks last week rolled out Replicator, a new Pentagon drone program to compete with China. The announcement was heavy on goals: to field thousands of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks begins her keynote speech Sept. 6, 2023, at the Defense News Conference in Pentagon City. (Colin Demarest/Staff) ARLINGTON, Va. — Deputy Defense Secretary ...

Capital Alpha Partners’ Byron Callan and Sam Bendett from the Center for Naval Analysis join Aviation Week editors to discuss challenges with the Pentagon’s initiative to manufacture masses of ...

The Department of Defense’s Replicator program is meant to be the Pentagon’s moonshot to equalize the balance with the Chinese army in the Indo-Pacific. The general concept — that unmanned systems ...

The U.S. Army's The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and the Threat Systems Management Office operate a swarm of 40 drones to test the rotational units capabilities during the battle of Razish, National ...

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 ...

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 Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has chosen Carlsbad, California-based Viasat to provide command and control connectivity across unmanned systems in support of the DIU’s Replicator effort, according ...

The Pentagon is getting new drones for its ambitious Replicator program, which is designed to field thousands of autonomous systems by August 2025. The Department of Defense said last week that ...