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DIU Announces Awardees For Replicator Command And Control, And Autonomous Teaming

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 20th, 2024

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DIU Announces Awardees For Replicator Command And Control, And Autonomous Teaming

Collaborative autonomy image by L3Harris Technologies.

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Wednesday said it has awarded software contracts to seven companies to provide resilient command and control (C2), and autonomous teaming capabilities for the unmanned systems the Defense Department is rapidly acquiring under the Replicator initiative. For the C2 capability, DIU selected solutions from Viasat [VSAT], Aalyria, Higher Ground, and IoT/AI for prototyping. This effort is called Opportunistic, Resilient & Innovative Expeditionary Topology (ORIENT). The Autonomous Collaborative Teaming (ACT) software prototypes will be provided by…

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