The Defense Innovation Unit is entering a new phase and occupying a unique new role within the defense technology ecosystem. In April 2023, former Apple executive Doug Beck became DIU’s newest ...

WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Unit plans to update industry on the status of the Replicator initiative during a technology summit next month. The event, slated for Feb. 13 at the organization’s ...

The new Joint Interagency Task Force 401, announced Thursday, could help reshape a growing market projected to reach tens of billions of dollars over the next decade. (Pvt. 2nd Class James ...

The U.S. Army's The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and the Threat Systems Management Office operate a swarm of 40 drones to test the rotational units capabilities during the battle of Razish, National ...

Three companies will produce prototype software to control the massive drone swarms envisioned by the Replicator rapid-production initiative, the Defense Innovation Unit announced on Wednesday. The ...

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has chosen Carlsbad, California-based Viasat to provide command and control connectivity across unmanned systems in support of the DIU’s Replicator effort, according ...

The Department of Defense aims to transform the battlefield with advanced autonomous systems through its ambitious and potentially game-changing Replicator initiative. This program seeks to rapidly ...

The contractor supplying Switchblade loitering munitions to the Defense Department under the first phase of the Replicator initiative has delivered “hundreds” of systems to a customer who has fielded ...

U.S. Marines operate a Skydio X2 drone at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, April 2022. (Staff Sgt. Akeel Austin/U.S. Marine Corps) WASHINGTON — The Defense Innovation Unit plans to host a technology ...

An octet of Firestorm Tempest UAS. The San Diego-based startup is trying to break into the market for small, attritable attack and ISR drones The Pentagon’s much-hyped effort to build masses of cheap ...

The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded contracts to seven companies to develop software to connect the thousands of drones it plans to buy through Replicator. (Pvt. 2nd Class James Newsome/Army) The ...

The 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and the Threat Systems Management Office operate a swarm of 40 drones to test the rotational units capabilities at the National Training Center. (Pvt. 2nd Class James ...