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b'The U.S. should take a lesson from Ukraine to innovate and deploy technology fast or potentially miss the boat, according to several witnesses at a House Armed Services subcommittee hearing on the Defense Department\\u2019s Replicator program, which aims to scale drones within the next two years.\\nReplicator pulls on lessons from Ukraine, who uses large numbers of cheap drones to deter Russia and inform its decisions. The panelists agreed that using this technique could help the Defense Department create operational dilemmas for adversaries. The witnesses agreed that Ukraine is a good example of what can be done when quickly deploying commercial drones and other technologies, but they questioned Replicator\\u2019s ability to copy this success in part because of red tape.\\n\\u201cWhat we\\u2019re seeing there is that the proliferation of commercial technology is influencing an agile acquirer and the Ukrainians are being very agile in this and pulling together various commercial technologies to achieve military significant means,\\u201d Bill Greenwalt, nonresident senior fellow at American Enterprise Institute, said. \\u201cThe lessons learned that we should be taking from there is that the commercial marketplace is maybe lightyears ahead of where the Department of Defense is and we need to figure out how to be agile and bring that in and then bring the unique military knowledge that we have to bear on that commercial attack. And that is going to be a process that moves against the Department of Defense\\u2019s culture.\\u201d\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'