Industry sources say the Army shouldn’t enter its own in-house design team in the race to replace the M2 Bradley. Top Army officials told us why it would work.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
To end annual panic spending to use up the budget, HASC wants to let DoD keep 50% of unspent Operations & Maintenance funds – if the appropriators allow it. A floor flight looms.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Pentagon programs that claim they’re ‘agile’ rarely are, GAO data shows. But how well does a Silicon Valley software strategy translate to weapons programs?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
One urged the Pentagon to push the embattled cloud computing contract through. Two said kill it. One said JEDI is still worth saving — but it’s running out of time.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
While the judge has paused the trial to let the Pentagon redo part of the cloud computing competition, acquisition guru Bill Greenwalt warns any victory for either side will be “pyrrhic.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
President Trump fired the Pentagon Inspector General last week. Was the real reason the IG’s attempt to investigate White House interference in the JEDI contract?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The ongoing reboot of the Bradley replacement program reminds many in Congress and industry of the disastrous Future Combat Systems. The Army has changed a lot since FCS – but has it changed enough?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Enterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
The critical infrastructure rules come from a presidential policy directive signed by President Barack Obama in 2013, kept in place by the Trump administration. “That helps,” a defense industry source said, “because there’s no partisan stink on it.”
By Paul McLeary
If you want to prototype 5G networks on a military base, you need to join the National Spectrum Consortium first. That’s an increasingly common model.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Reformers like Air Force acquisitions chief Will Roper have seized on Other Transactions Authority contracts as a way to bypass bureaucracy and jumpstart innovation.
By Colin Clark
There’s not a lot of confidence out there about the prospects for a 2020 budget agreement. “A stripped down mini-NDAA may be all that could pass this year for defense,” says one long-time budget watcher.
By Colin Clark
The Texas Republican, who supported Pentagon reform, bigger budgets, and Trump’s border wall, is joining several other conservatives is walking away from Capitol Hill.
By Paul McLeary
When Washington heavyweights like Peter Levine, former Democratic staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Bill Greenwalt, former deputy undersecretary of Defense for industrial policy and longtime Republican acquisition expert on the SASC, say you got something wrong, people listen. That is especially the case if you were the folks who Levine and…
By David Drabkin and Lt. Col. Sam Kidd
The inability of DoD to tailor its processes to incentivize non-traditional participation in the market has serious national security implications.
By Bill Greenwalt