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DoD To Submit Replicator Spending Plan To Congress In Coming Days, Hicks Says

DoD To Submit Replicator Spending Plan To Congress In Coming Days, Hicks Says
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks provides the keynote speech at the American Dynamism Summit, Washington, D.C., Jan. 30, 2024. (DoD Photo by U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders)

The Pentagon is set to submit a spending plan and reprogramming requests to Congress in the “next several days” for its Replicator initiative to field thousands of attritable autonomous systems by August 2025, a senior defense official said Tuesday. Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks provided the update during remarks at the American Dynamism Summit, which arrives as DoD has been briefing Congress on funding and acquisition strategies for the capabilities selected to be part of Replicator. “We've put our heads…

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