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INDOPACOM had the biggest request of these five COCOMS, asking for nearly $12 billion in additional funding.
DIU launches Project G.I. to speed UAS development with $20M prize pool
“Today, warfighters lack the unmanned systems needed to train for combat and prevail if called upon to use them,” DIU director Doug Beck said.
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Defense Innovation Unit launches solicitation for Replicator 2.0, new prize challenge for cUAS
The LCD systems will “help to minimize risk to friendly forces, civilians, and infrastructure in the homeland and abroad,” DIU said in the release.
Military services need to ‘sync up’ Replicator software, Navy official says
“I can't have every fleet commander buying their software or their robot. I mean, some of that can happen, obviously, but we do have to settle up," said Director of the Integrated Warfare (N9I) office, Rear Adm. Christopher Sweeney.
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“Unlimited budgets don’t help the taxpayer and don’t automatically translate into military strength,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks also said today.
DIU picks 7 companies to support Replicator autonomy, C2 efforts
“We are seeing the strength of the joint teams that assemble to collaborate on the challenges of deploying autonomous systems including policy, software architecture, experimentation, and more,” said Pentagon AI chief Radha Plumb.
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Pentagon announces 4 drones, loitering munitions now under Replicator
"The delivery of commercially available Company-Level Small UAS with support from the Replicator initiative will allow American soldiers to rapidly experiment, learn and innovate with these systems," said Army Chief Gen. Randy George.
Saronic unveils latest, largest unmanned vessel, with eye on mass production
The company plans to make "hundreds" of the new drone starting next year, which CEO Dino Mavrookas wants to be available once Navy contracting "catches up."
Pentagon on the hunt for cheap, one-way drones
“We have no cap on the number of vendors involved," a DIU spokesperson said.
Pentagon homes in on counter-drone tech in Replicator 2 initiative
"The expectation is that Replicator 2 will assist with overcoming challenges we face in the areas of production capacity, technology innovation, authorities, policies, open system architecture and system integration, and force structure," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.
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Special operations forces ‘big fan’ of Replicator, especially for Pacific missions
Chris Maier, assistant secretary of defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, said that as "students of the Ukriane conflict," that fight has underscored that "mass matters."
Some Replicator tranche 2 systems have already been selected, DIU head says
Doug Beck, director of the DIU, said the department has “selected some systems already,” however “there’s other things that we are still kind of finalizing.”
Pentagon No. 2 Hicks defends her Replicator drone initiative after Hill scrutiny
Congress needs to stop grilling Pentagon officials about the Pentagon’s plan to bulk-buy cheap unmanned weapons and start actually helping, the Deputy Secretary of Defense said: “We’ve done nearly 40 Hill briefings since last October, averaging almost one a week. …That depth of engagement isn’t scalable for Congress.”
EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon R&D chief defends RDER experimentation initiative after Senate broadside
"Every single undersecretary, every single service, every COCOM … they all concurred, thumbs up, on the first four sets of prototypes, that these are mature enough to get into production and rapid fielding," Under Secretary Heidi Shyu told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview on the progress of her Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve.