Replicator Initiative Looks to Swarm Through 'Valley of Death'

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks laid out an ambitious goal when she announced the Replicator initiative in August: within two years, the Defense Department will field thousands of all-domain, attritable, autonomous swarming robots to counter China’s military mass.

While that objective in and of itself is quite eye-catching, Replicator’s other goal — to revolutionize how the Defense Department does business by building a bridge across the so-called “Valley of Death,” where innovative defense technologies fail to make it to the field — could be the real success story of the initiative.

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