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 ...

The Pentagon is betting big on drones, and one defense contractor keeps showing up in the most important procurement ...

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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.

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 ...

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.

(NewsNation) — The Pentagon’s Department of Government Efficiency, the unit leading recent defense modernization efforts, is now taking charge of overhauling the U.S. Army’s drone plan, Reuters first ...

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 ...

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) ...

The Replicator initiative, aimed at producing thousands of armed drones to blunt China’s military power in the Western Pacific is “alive and well” under the Pentagon’s new leadership, according to a ...