Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett’s report to Congress on future space acquisition will include a plan to reform the way JROC sets requirements.
By Theresa HitchensGray Eagle is the low-cost, low-risk answer to Army modernization
Gray Eagle STOL and Gray Eagle 25M are the best options for Army aviation as it assesses where to move from its current inflection point.
“I have mobilized the Department of the Air Force into a wartime acquisition posture,” said Roper. “We are at war with this virus.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“If they tried that, I’d expect to see a bipartisan display of pitchforks on Capitol Hill, and the likeness of certain DoD officials burned in effigy,” said one expert of any move to disband MDA.
By Theresa Hitchens
During an almost hour-long press conference at the Pentagon this morning, the DoD’s top acquisition official, Ellen Lord, often struggled to answer questions over what segments of the defense industry could be put into action producing things like ventilators and masks, which are in short supply at hospitals across the country.
By Paul McLeary
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
“There are some places that will have some interesting dialogue,” says Shawn Barnes, the Air Force’s point person on working out future space acquisition authorities under the Space Force.
By Theresa Hitchens
Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col Mike Andrews added in a statement that the temporary Mitsubishi closure only affects Japanese aircraft, while Lockheed “is restricting travel” to the Cameri facility, based on a US Embassy travel warning.
By Paul McLeary
AI can make logistics data as valuable as intelligence or operational data for mission success
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
“At this point we don’t want to see an either/or — we actually want to see both technologies pursued,” Lewis said of DoD’s pursuit of hypersonic boost-glide and cruise missile efforts.
By Theresa Hitchens
“Now is the perfect time to make Jetson’s cars real,” says Air Force acquisition head Will Roper.
By Theresa Hitchens
Undersecretary Ellen Lord took pains today to emphasize companies would have plenty of time and plenty of help to meet new security standards. Is she going too slow?
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“If you look across every one of our [military software] programs, it’s a nightmare across the board,” says Hyten.
By Theresa Hitchens
Lockheed Martin delivered 134 aircraft this year: 81 to the US military, 30 to international partners and 23 to Foreign Military Sales customers, says Lockheed Martin.
By Theresa Hitchens
The 2020 mandates an independent study of whether MDA should be moved from R&E to the purview of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (A&S) Ellen Lord.
By Theresa Hitchens
Worried about readiness, Congress demands that DoD acquisition czar Ellen Lord undertake a sweeping study of “sustainment cost data related to the F–35 program.”
By Theresa Hitchens
