Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) is calling for a ten-fold increase in annual spending on DoD's Replicator initiative. Replicator, "an opening move toward making big bets on defense innovation, has spent $500 million so far," Wicker wrote in a Thursday op-ed in The Washington Post. "Let’s scale that by orders of magnitude and spend $5 billion per year, which would enhance our warfighting edge and help rebuild a competitive defense industrial base." Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg…
