LM Evolve<\/a>\u00a0at Lockheed Martin. \u201cHigher up the cost and capability curve, I think there’s going to be a lot more opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\nNeither the United States nor its allies can easily mimic\u00a0Chinese manufacturer DJI\u2019s Mavic drone, which is a hot item on both sides of the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think an allied-built version of a Mavic drone is going to be much more expensive. But I think there’s gonna be a lot of trade-off in terms of capability,\u201d Broecker said.<\/p>\n
John Suding, the executive director of East Asia defense and government services at Boeing Defense, Space & Security, said the drones\u00a0that traditional defense contractors can supply may be a bit more expensive and specific than what many are currently envisioning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe complexity of the systems is going to matter, right? Can you use dual-use technology in the system?\u201d Suding said. \u201cThat gives you access to a different type of supply base than you might have if it’s a very bespoke solution. Once we understand that, once we understand how many of these things do you [the Pentagon] want to build, how long do you want to build them for? Then you can start sizing supply chains to the, you know, to the point on driving scale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once those questions are answered, he said, building thousands of cheap military drones quickly may become as easy as building missiles and bombs like Boeing\u2019s Joint Direct Attack Munition.<\/p>\n
\u201cJDAM is a great example. We can deliver tens of thousands of those in a year,\u201d\u00a0 Suding said.<\/p>\n
But, he said, if you want the machine to have better eyes, brains, and steerability than a missile, you might have to deal with a more specialized and thus expensive solution.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a Defense Writer’s Group event last week, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said “what we are thinking of is more like things in the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit than in the millions of dollars per unit.”<\/p>\n
A new approach<\/strong><\/p>\nSchuyler Moore, CENTCOM\u2019s chief technology officer, speaking at the Pallas event, said that the key to achieving the Replicator vision is to\u00a0hand combatant commands a bigger role earlier on\u2014and even let operators build their own drones.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was definitely going to be a supply-chain element of this that needs to be talked through, not only of manufacturing, but also getting things into theater,\u201d Moore said. \u201cBut we also believe that there are mitigating actions that you can take.\u201d<\/p>\n
She pointed to Task Force 99, an innovation unit within Air Force Central Command.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were frustrated with waiting for a number of systems that they were trying to get out into the theater. They happened to have a couple of 3D printers on base. And in their free time\u2014quite literally, this is how they described it to me afterwards\u2014in their free time, they found a company who had a blueprint online, and by blueprint, I mean that they had a picture of the UAV that they were 3D printing online. And they talked to this company and the company said, \u2018It’s going to be ready in two years.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
That was too long for Task Force 99, Moore said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey wanted to see if they could print out the picture that they saw on the company’s website, and they did it in 48 hours. And they are currently in the process. of writing out the [standard operating procedures] for how you print UAS in theater,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
To pull off such feats, Moore said, combatant commands need professional innovators who are solely focused on rapid prototyping and scaling.<\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, she sounded an optimistic note about DOD\u2019s goals for Replicator:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe it is absolutely possible and we believe that our task forces are very well positioned to serve as the battlefield replicator,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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