DoD to Deploy Thousands of Low Cost Autonomous Systems Under Replicator Program

During her recent remarks at the National Defense Industrial Association’s (NDIA) Emerging Technologies for Defense conference, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks outlined the agency’s new “Replicator” initiative. Under the new Replicator initiative, over the next 18 to 24 months, the Defense Department will deploy thousands of low cost autonomous systems across multiple domains.