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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Pentagon's Replicator program, which aimed to field thousands of drones by August, has fallen short of its goals and faced implementation challenges, the Wall Street Journal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The US seems to be rapidly advancing with its ambitious “Replicator” initiative. Under this program, the US aims to deploy swarms ...

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 ...

In a speech last August, Kathleen Hicks listed the two most common questions about Replicator, her two-year pledge to buy thousands of drones and help the U.S. military compete with China. "When we ...

As global demand for unmanned aerial systems accelerates, Taiwan is positioning itself as a potential cornerstone in the Pentagon's Replicator initiative—a program launched in 2023 to deploy thousands ...

The Replicator programme selected the Anduril Altius-600, seen here launched by a US Army UH-60. The Altius-600 can be launched from air, land, or sea and stands to provide swarming ISR and kinetic ...

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.