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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Six months into its effort to field thousands of attritable, autonomous systems, the Pentagon is planning the second iteration of ...

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 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 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 has outlined the type of inexpensive, unmanned systems it plans to field next year under its Replicator program to help offset China’s military advantage in personnel and manned equipment ...

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 - 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...