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 ...

Although the Replicator initiative has made several accomplishments, there are still multiple gaps to plug across the US Department of Defense (DoD) and its services. The Replicator programme, an ...

The contractor supplying Switchblade loitering munitions to the Defense Department under the first phase of the Replicator initiative has delivered “hundreds” of systems to a customer who has fielded ...

The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords leads a formation with the unmanned surface vessels Ranger and the USV Mariner during Integrated Battle Problem 23.2, on Sep. 7, ...

The head of the Defense Innovation Unit, a champion of acquisition reform who was instrumental in the Pentagon’s push to rapidly build and deploy new technology, resigned Friday due to political ...

Michael Hirsh is the former foreign editor and chief diplomatic correspondent for Newsweek, and the former national editor for POLITICO Magazine. When the Pentagon announced a “joint interagency task ...

The new Joint Interagency Task Force 401, announced Thursday, could help reshape a growing market projected to reach tens of billions of dollars over the next decade. (Pvt. 2nd Class James ...

A General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) YFQ-42A Gambit prototype for the U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) program flew for the first time in California on Wednesday ...

Secretary of the Navy John Phelan speaks to sailors aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) on April 28, 2025. US Navy photo The Navy has 30 days to come up with a plan to ...

The U.S. Navy is cannibalizing innovation offices and resources dedicated to the Replicator drone-counter-drone initiative to establish a new entity, the Naval Rapid Capabilities Office. Why it ...