- 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
- DOD Replicator Initiative: Background and Issues for Congress
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 (DOD is now "using a secondary Department of War designation," under Executive Order 14347 dated September 5, 2025 )
- Replicator (United States military) - Wikipedia
Replicator is the name of a United States Department of Defense program intended to pioneer ways to cheaply produce large amounts of weapons or systems for the U S military
- Replicator (Star Trek) - Wikipedia
In Star Trek, a replicator is a machine that can create (and recycle) things Replicators were originally seen to simply synthesize meals on demand, but in later series much larger non-food items appear
- Replicator: An inside look at the Pentagon’s ambitious drone program
The idea behind Replicator — that the Pentagon should buy more, expendable systems rather than few, exquisite ones — has circulated for years
- Secretary of Defense Memorandum: Replicator 2 Direction and Execution
As a result of that assessment, I have determined that Replicator 2 will tackle the warfighter priority of countering the threat posed by small uncrewed aerial systems (C-sUAS) to our most
- First Replicator Initiative Capability on Track for August, Officials . . .
Replicator, overseen by DIU, is part of the Pentagon’s wider effort to quickly stitch together capabilities via common software to tackle problems faster than the standard acquisition system allows, members said at the Tuesday morning panel
- DOD Innovation Official Discusses Progress on Replicator
The Defense Department is integrating lessons learned from executing the first iteration of its Replicator initiative as it tackles the next phase of the effort to put cutting-edge capabilities in the hands of warfighters, said a senior Defense Innovation Unit official today
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