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Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said Wednesday the Pentagon’s initiative to field thousands of attritable autonomous systems over the next two years won’t require new funding, with the department now seeking out existing programs that could be scaled up for production. Hicks offered additional details on the new Replicator initiative after first announcing the new effort last week to get after what she called “all-domain attritable autonomous systems,” or ADA2 capabilities, to counter China’s continuing military build-up. “First, let’s be…
