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Replicator gets $200 million in newly released defense spending bill
Replicator, the Pentagonâs effort to buy and field thousands of drones by next August, is closer than ever to its first round of funding.
Congress just released the final text of its long-delayed fiscal year 2024 Pentagon spending bill. In it, the Replicator program would get $200 million.
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