The Replicator Drone Initiative
This is the first iteration of the Department of Defense's Replicator program, focused on leveraging autonomous systems across multiple domains.
What is Replicator 1?
This term refers to the process of gathering, organizing, storing, and distributing data in a way that makes it easy to access, understand, and use.
What is Information Management (IM)?
This system is used for sending taskers from all levels of command and organizations within the Marine Corps.
What is the Enterprise Task Management System (ETMS)?
This is the primary product of the Climate Risk Program that assesses climate impact categories as they pertain to risk to mission.
What is a Climate Risk Assessment (CRA)?
This body of water separates China from Taiwan.
What is the Taiwan Strait?
These types of unmanned vehicles are part of the Replicator program and include both aerial and surface systems.
What are unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs)?
This is the digital platform used for organizing and storing files to ensure easy access and a seamless flow of information, as mentioned in the example of cleaning up the "closet."
What is SharePoint?
These documents are typically included with taskers that require review by General Officers or SES-level personnel.
What are the route sheet and info paper?
This climate impact refers to the overall increase in the Earth's average temperature, which can affect weather patterns and operations.
What is rising global temperatures?
This body of water is crucial to China’s economy, as it serves as a major shipping route for food, energy imports, and exports. It is contained within the First Island Chain.
What is the South China Sea?
The Department of Defense has set this ambitious goal for Replicator, aiming to deploy thousands of autonomous systems in multiple domains within this timeframe.
What is 18 to 24 months?
When saving files, this is the key element that ensures consistency and ease of identification.
What is a naming convention?
This document should be included when reviewing taskers, offering a structured format to resolve comments on the documents.
What is the DD 818 Comment Resolution Matrix?
The CRA process involves using the data and findings to define the scope of the assessment and create a research plan with the help of this role, which coordinates data collection.
Who is the Climate Analyst?
This island chain is considered the most critical for U.S. defense against China, stretching from Japan through Taiwan, the Philippines, and into the Indonesian Archipelago.
What is the First Island Chain?
According to Dr. Greenwalt, this is the biggest problem that Replicator seeks to overcome within the Department of Defense to bring about faster innovation and deployment.
What is DOD's bureaucratic culture and slow acquisition process?
According to MCDP 6, this is the environment in which warfighters operate, characterized by unpredictability, chaos, and constant disruption, making data collection and processing challenging.
What is the physical and political environment of uncertainty or a contested environment?
At this level, a tasker package includes a route sheet and an info paper that summarizes the tasker for the General Officer’s review.
What is the General Officer/SES, or Principal Level tasker review process?
This is a term used to describe the potential variation in the severity of climate impacts, based on different rates of global emissions in future scenarios.
What are emission scenarios?
This U.S. military base, located in the Indian Ocean, plays a pivotal role in projecting American power into regions like the Persian Gulf and the South China Sea, despite Chinese efforts to undermine it.
What is Diego Garcia?
The Replicator program is designed to enhance deterrence by creating this type of effect, which has been compared to historical demonstrations of technological capability.
What is a deterrent effect?
This factor, driven by advancements in computing and communication technologies, has exponentially increased the volume of data available to commanders but has also complicated the process of decision-making.
What is the increase in available data?
These three key factors should be considered when reviewing documents as part of the tasker process.
What are: Does this help or hurt the Marine Corps? Will it cause a resource burden? Does it align to policy?
These models, used in climate projections, help assess future climate scenarios by accounting for various global emissions levels, ranging from low to high.
What are General Circulation Models (GCMs)?
In 2021, the U.S. introduced a new weapon to counter China's A2/AD strategy in the First Island Chain, which has a range of up to 500 kilometers. It is a replacement for the ATACMS.
What is the Precision-Strike Missile?