Defense officials consistently tout the Replicator initiative — an ambitious effort to “swarm” thousands of attritable, inexpensive drones at a break-neck pace to counter China — as a great success.

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 ...

(NewsNation) — The Pentagon’s Department of Government Efficiency, the unit leading recent defense modernization efforts, is now taking charge of overhauling the U.S. Army’s drone plan, Reuters first ...