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Advanced / Transformational Technology

Replicator Picks Include Both Deployed Capabilities, Newer Systems, DIU Director Says

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, February 15th, 2024

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Replicator Picks Include Both Deployed Capabilities, Newer Systems, DIU Director Says

Doug Beck, director of the Defense Innovation Unit and senior advisor to the secretary of defense. Photo: DoD

The Pentagon has selected both currently-deployed systems and newer capabilities that have not yet been operationalized for its Replicator initiative to field thousands of attritable autonomous systems by August 2025, a lead official said Thursday. “What Replicator is about is taking the absolute best technology that we have, whether it is shovel ready and already in place or it’s something that might be a little bit newer, but in all cases we’ve got to be able to leap frog ahead…

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