Wednesday, October 1, 2025
The Pentagon's top watchdog will review the Defense Department's Replicator effort, which aims to field thousands of inexpensive, autonomous drones by August 2025 to counter China's military mass in the Indo-Pacific, according to a memorandum issued Monday.
The Air Force needs more money to modernize key weapon systems, though the service is beginning to shift toward "cost-effective mass," the service's under secretary said Monday.
The Defense Innovation Unit says it executed flight tests in June incorporating its Blue Uncrewed Aerial System platforms with the Collaborative Low-Altitude UAS Integration Effort, allowing the organization to discern unmanned aerial systems operated by the Defense Department from others flying in the same airspace.