Sign In
Search
Unmanned Systems

DIU Officials Outline Replicator Selection, Funding And Future Work

Rich Abott By
SHARE:
DIU Officials Outline Replicator Selection, Funding And Future Work
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks at NDIA's Emerging Technologies for Defense conference on Aug. 28, 2023, where she announced DoD's new Replicator initiative. Photo: NDIA/EPNAC

SAN DIEGO – While Defense Department leadership chose the first tranche of vehicles for what the Defense Innovation Unit is calling Replicator 1, officials also outlined next steps and why they are being so secretive about the specific platforms. Last August, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks gave DIU 18 to 24 months to find mature attritable autonomous systems to counter China’s military build-up, to be built in the thousands (Defense Daily, Aug. 28, 2023). Hicks oversees the project with Vice…

Subscriber-only content. Please log in below.

Not a subscriber or registered user yet?

Please contact us at clientservices@accessintel.com or call us at 888-707-5814 (Monday – Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. and Friday 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET.), to start a free trial, get pricing information, order a reprint, or post an article link on your website.

Recommended

Advanced / Transformational Technology

Navy Awards Contracts To Three MUSV Phase One Trials Winners, Others Continue To Phase 2

Navy/USMC

DIU And Navy Award Three MCM Modernization Prize Winners

Navy/USMC

Navy Establishes New Robotic And Autonomous Warfighting Development Center

International

U.S. and UK Test Fire Torpedo From UUV

Trending

Anduril Nabs Potential $1.8 Billion Army Deal To Support ‘Corps-Scale Fielding’ For NGC2
Hegseth Moves To Speed C-UAS Use In The Homeland, Expands JIATF’s Roles
Defense Watch: Possible MUSV Lease, CBO and Golden Dome, X-BAT Sites
Army Picks Initial 30 Finalists For Low-Cost Interceptor Demonstrations
USAF Looks for Long-Range Communications Drones Deployable from AFSOC Fixed Wing Platforms

Congress Updates

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]

Missile Defense

Fischer Says Golden Dome Boosters Need To Increase Capitol Hill Support With Information, Warns Against Counting On Reconciliation

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – A Senate Armed Services panel chair today said boosters of the Golden Dome program still have work to do to increase support on Capitol Hill while […]

The Force Multipliers

Force Multipliers

Michael Harrison – SANS Institute

Force Multipliers

Michael DiOrio – Dataminr

Force Multipliers

Arne Brinck – Dark Wolf Solutions

Force Multipliers

Jags Kandasamy – Latent AI

Job Feed

Post a Job // Post a Resume