The Replicator Initiative - Defense Innovation Unit
The first iteration of Replicator (Replicator 1), announced in August 2023, will deliver all-domain attritable autonomous systems (ADA2) to warfighters at a scale of multiple thousands, across multiple warfighting domains, within 18-24 months, or by August 2025.
Replicator: An inside look at the Pentagon’s ambitious drone …
2023年12月19日 · A week later, Hicks debuted the Replicator initiative, a pledge to field thousands of drones in two years to help counter China. Officials in industry, Congress and the Pentagon have told...
What’s Next for the Pentagon’s Replicator Drone Program?
2025年1月7日 · Find out what’s on the horizon for the high-tech Replicator drone program at the 2025 Defense R&D Summit hosted by the Potomac Officers Club on Jan. 23. Don’t miss your chance to meet leaders ...
Pentagon unveils ‘Replicator’ drone program to compete with …
2023年8月28日 · Replicator’s goal of fielding small drones in high numbers and on a rapid timeline echoes calls from former DIU director Mike Brown for the Pentagon to better leverage commercial innovation to...
First Replicator drones already in Indo-Pacific, DOD says
2024年5月23日 · The aim of the Replicator program, announced in August 2023, is to deliver tens of thousands of low-cost land, air, and sea drones to operators in the Pacific by the end of 2025. Each of the...
DOD Innovation Official Discusses Progress on Replicator
2024年12月12日 · Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks unveiled the Replicator initiative in August 2023 as one approach DOD is taking to meet the challenges laid out in the National Defense Strategy, which...
Deputy Secretary of Defense Hicks Announces First Tranche of Replicator …
2024年5月6日 · Deputy Secretary Hicks announced today some of the capabilities and one of the systems selected for accelerated fielding as part of the first tranche of the Replicator initiative, which is...
Pentagon Will Spend $1B on First Round of Replicator Drones
2024年3月11日 · The first, Replicator 1, tackles the problem of how to slow or defeat an amphibious invasion of Taiwan with massed lethal surface drones and overhead loitering munitions, USNI News has reported. Split over funding periods, the Pentagon has earmarked about $1 billion so far to fund the first round of the Replicator initiative in two parts.
Replicator drones already being delivered, Pentagon says - Defense News
2024年5月23日 · The Pentagon has started sending systems to Indo-Pacific Command as a part of Replicator — a program aimed at hastening the purchase and delivery of drones.
DoD adds new drones, software enablers under Replicator
2024年11月15日 · The Pentagon is adding new drones and integrated software enablers to its second tranche of the Replicator program, which is focused on the rapid production of cheap autonomous drones, the department announced Wednesday.