Questions have swirled about the new administration’s vision for the initiative and whether there are plans to transform or terminate it.| DefenseScoop
Defense Department leadership selected Anduril-made Ghost-X drones to be quickly mass-produced in the second tranche of the Replicator initiative.| DefenseScoop
DefenseScoop has exclusive details on what's to come under Replicator 2.0 via a memorandum signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.| DefenseScoop
DefenseScoop asked former defense officials and national security experts to share their analyses of President Trump's executive order on "Unleashing American Drone Dominance."| DefenseScoop
As a leader of the Trump administration’s new high-priority plan to "unleash American drone dominance," the Pentagon is moving to reduce bureaucratic barriers and speedily expand the quantities and types of U.S.-approved autonomous systems military personnel can access for operations across warfighting domains, senior officials told a small group of reporters at the Pentagon on Wednesday.| DefenseScoop
Switchblade 600 drones are among the first set of systems DOD leadership and Congress are evaluating to be rapidly scaled through the ambitious initiative, multiple sources told DefenseScoop this week.| DefenseScoop
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operation and Low-Intensity Conflict Christopher Maier briefed reporters on recent pursuits.| DefenseScoop
The Pentagon's No. 2 official on Wednesday provided the latest update on this high-stakes modernization initiative.| DefenseScoop
The Pentagon’s first tranche of systems for its secretive Replicator initiative includes counter-drone assets in addition to different-sized unmanned surface vessels and loitering munitions, DefenseScoop has learned.| DefenseScoop
The Pentagon’s ambitious new Replicator initiative is not a new program of record and DOD has no plans to request new money to fund it in fiscal 2024, according to Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks.| DefenseScoop
The Pentagon's Replicator initiative includes plans to field thousands of drones in the next two years or less, as part of a broad new scheme to counter China’s massive, military modernization efforts.| DefenseScoop
Defense Innovation Unit Director Doug Beck made a multi-day trip to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s headquarters in Hawaii to discuss Replicator and other tech pursuits.| DefenseScoop
Pentagon leadership selected Anduril’s Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicles as part of the second tranche of capabilities to be quickly mass produced via a high-stakes modernization effort known as Replicator, multiple sources told DefenseScoop.| DefenseScoop
