Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Replicator attritable drones The Pentagon has unveiled its latest strategy to counter China’s rapid military progress, with a ...

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 ...

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 Pentagon is pushing to flood the Pacific with thousands of low-cost drones and unmanned vessels, betting that sheer numbers of expendable machines can offset China’s growing military mass. Deputy ...

Replicator, the Pentagon's effort to buy and field thousands of drones by next August, is closer than ever to its first round of funding. Congress just released the final text of its long-delayed ...

Ukrainians who read the newly released details of the Pentagon's giant Replicator drone effort may well have said, "Hey, that's what we're doing." "The first tranche of Replicator capabilities include ...

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Sept. 22, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP) WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will select its first candidates for ...

Replicator, unveiled on August 28, 2023, is a Department of Defense (DOD) initiative, led by DOD’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), to field thousands of uncrewed systems by August 2025. Replicator’s ...

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 Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks Feb. 21, 2024, at a conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Pentagon's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office. Hicks' signature ...