WASHINGTON — Clint Hinote didn’t expect to change his mind. He was back at the Pentagon in August, for the first time since retiring this year. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks had asked to ...

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Sept. 22, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP) WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will select its first candidates for ...

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 ...

A U.S. Navy SEAL fires a Switchblade 300 Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System during training. (MC1 Chelsea D. Meiller/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Army is poised to be the largest player in the first round ...

From left, Skydio CEO Adam Bry demonstrates the company's autonomous systems technology for Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks and Doug Beck, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, during a ...

Some U.S. military units have completed training on cheap drones produced under the Replicator project, a milestone for the Pentagon's flagship innovation-at-scale effort, the deputy defense secretary ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has sent Congress a classified request to shift $300 million in funds to speed development and purchasing of its first Replicator drones, an effort to field thousands of ...

You heard all about the new Replicator Mini, right? Well, MakerBot's got a new "prosumer" machine to go along with it. "We didn't call it the Replicator 3," CEO Bre Pettis explained about the device, ...

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 ...