Six months into its effort to field thousands of attritable, autonomous systems, the Pentagon is planning the second iteration of the Replicator program — and this time, software will be the focus.

A Navy SEAL fires a Switchblade 300 Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System during a training exercise om 2023. (U.S. Navy) The Pentagon unveiled a new round of aerial and maritime drones for ...

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 ...

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.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks at the National Defense Industrial Association's Emerging Technologies conference Monday, August 28, 2023 in Washington. She announced Replicator ...

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 ...

The Department of Defense’s inspector general has launched a new evaluation of the Replicator program, which aims to field and deploy thousands of autonomous drones by 2025 to contend with China. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...