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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 announced it wants to acquire thousands of attritable autonomous systems like the Teal 2 ISR drone seen here to counter China's quantitative military advantage. The Department of Defense ...

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.

WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to spend about $500 million annually on the plan to network and task thousands of cheap, smart combat drones for any future conflict, U.S. Deputy ...