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.
“We say ‘supply chain,’ we say ‘kill chain’; I like networks and fabrics, [because] chains are only as good as the weakest link,” said Gen. James McConville. “Many of these systems are going to need a long-term investment.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The changes, including halving business divisions, come as Boeing’s defense sector finds itself at a crossroads, with new leadership contending with systemic financial issues tied to its large number of fixed-price contracts with the US government.
By Valerie Insinna
“The defense industrial base right now is strained. And a lot of that has to do with the workforce, as we recover from COVID,” said Adm. Michael Gilday.
By Justin Katz
“Not only is the government skeptical of ongoing consolidation, it is not happy with the execution of those promises made in the past,” writes Bill Greenwalt of AEI.
By Bill Greenwalt
The hold by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, could delay the confirmations of Radha Plumb, who is nominated to be deputy under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, and Laura Taylor-Kale, the administration’s pick for the assistant secretary of defense for industrial base policy.
By Valerie Insinna
GAO raps Pentagon for relying on a strategy cobbled from four old documents.
By Lee Ferran
Modernizing military simulation with open systems architecture
Best-of-breed common models and architecture enable virtual training and testing with the same data in a cyber-resilient posture.
Taylor-Kale, who has a long history of working on manufacturing issues, is currently a fellow for innovation and economic competitiveness at the Council on Foreign Relations.
By Aaron Mehta
The request is $800 million more than what the Pentagon wanted last year and includes investments in zero trust architecture and support to the Defense Industrial Base.
By Jaspreet Gill
That conclusion is part of the National Defense Industrial Association’s third annual Vital Signs 2022 report, which offers an analysis of the US’s defense industrial base.
By Jaspreet Gill
VMware’s Tom Kellermann linked increasingly aggressive attacks to geopolitical tensions with Russia and Belarus.
By Brad D. Williams
“The COVID-19 pandemic likewise taught the United States and our allies that adversaries, particularly China, are capable of weaponizing supply chain vulnerabilities to threaten our national security should they choose to,” the Task Force’s report says.
By Colin Clark
The bad practices are aimed especially at — though not limited to — educating critical infrastructure owners and operators. This includes, of course, the defense industrial base and many who support its supply chain — from communications equipment and high-tech capabilities to electrical and mechanical components for military hardware, such as tanks, planes, and ships.
By Brad D. Williams
“We don’t have a parochial view, thinking that because [a cyber incident] happened over there [in that industry], it can’t happen here [in the space industry],” AIAA’s Lee says.
By Brad D. Williams
Smaller suppliers need larger primes and Pentagon officials to engage more to keep the US supply chain healthy, write Spirit AeroSystems executives Josh Boehm and Wendy Crossman.
By Josh Boehm and Dr. Wendy Crossman