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 ...

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.

Two sets of contracts awarded on Nov. 20 will be used to tackle the non-hardware challenges presented by the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) said on Nov. 20.

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 ...

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 new Joint Interagency Task Force 401, announced Thursday, could help reshape a growing market projected to reach tens of billions of dollars over the next decade. (Pvt. 2nd Class James ...

Viasat (VSAT) announced it was selected by the Defense Innovation Unit to deliver networking capability in support of the Replicator initiative by providing highly resilient command and control ...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AeroVironment’s (AV) Switchblade 600 loitering munition system has been selected for Tranche 1 of the first iteration of the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD) ...