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.

With new DAWG initiative, the DOD is attempting to fix a historically slow-moving, broken acquisition pipeline.

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 ...

U.S. Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Jim Slife applauded Wednesday the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) latest steps in developing autonomous vehicle and software capabilities under the ...

New: Russia fired a large ballistic missile at Ukraine. The Ukrainian air force claims it was an intercontinental ballistic missile targeting the city of Dnipro early Thursday, which—if true—would be ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A second wave of Replicator program acquisitions will focus exclusively on counter-small uncrewed aircraft systems (C-sUAS) starting in fiscal 2026, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo ...

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 ...