What's next for the Pentagon after the Replicator programme?
Although the Replicator initiative has made several accomplishments, there are still multiple gaps to plug across the US Department of Defense (DoD) and its services.
Flirtey, in partnership with the City of Reno, has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct UAS delivery flights beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS).
The new approval enables Flirtey to conduct UAS delivery operations with a pilot controlling the flights from a remote location. The approval is for its UAS specially designed to deliver automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and commercial packages to Washoe County residents.
Flirtey and Reno are participants in the FAA's UAS Integration Pilot Program, a programme that accelerates the integration of life-saving and commercial UAS operations within the National Airspace System.
As one of the ten selected governments for the programme, the City of Reno selected Flirtey as its partner to deliver AEDs for the immediate treatment of a person experiencing cardiac arrest and to pioneer a scalable model for commercial UAS delivery.
Although the Replicator initiative has made several accomplishments, there are still multiple gaps to plug across the US Department of Defense (DoD) and its services.
Cummings Aerospace presented its turbojet-powered Hellhound loitering munition at SOF Week 2025, offering a man-portable solution aligned with the US Army’s LASSO requirements.
PDW has revealed its Attritable Multirotor First Person View drone at SOF Week 2025, offering special operations forces a low-cost, rapidly deployable platform for strike and ISR missions, inspired by battlefield lessons from Ukraine.
Teledyne FLIR is highlighting the emerging requirements for 'recoverable and re-usable' loitering munitions across the contemporary operating environment during this week’s SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida.
High-performance maritime industry player Kraken Technology Group, based in the UK, has used the SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida this week to debut its K3 Scout uncrewed surface vessel (USV) to the North American market.
Red Cat and Palladyne AI recently conducted a cross-platform collaborative flight involving three diverse heterogeneous drones.