Stan Soloway and Jason Knudson dig into whether Other Transaction Authorities actually work, and whether they should become a more common tool for the DoD.
By Stan Soloway and Jason KnudsonThe RFP comes as the Army is undertaking a major, multi-year network modernization initiative.
By Brad D. Williams“We shouldn’t have to stand for this,” former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer says of industry cost overruns.
By Richard SpencerThe current approach “is more akin to innovation tourism—with the DoD sampling the local fare of the United States’ various tech hubs—than a bona fide strategy for bringing emerging technologies into the department,” the report notes.
By Brad D. Williams“We are at an inflection point in national security when ‘business as usual’ and the status quo will allow China, our primary threat, to continue to advance militarily, technologically, economically, and diplomatically,” writes Arnold Punaro.
By Arnold PunaroBrown, the head of the Defense Innovation Unit, was caught in an Inspector General complaint.
By Aaron MehtaThe Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray prototype successfully refueled a Navy Super Hornet fighter in mid-air during a Friday test.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.General Dynamics had urgently upgunned a Europe-based brigade, but Oshkosh will build the next three to six brigades’ worth, starting with a unit in the Pacific Northwest.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.“We have a lot of people programs and we tried to protect those. Secondly, we tried to protect readiness. Third, we tried to protect modernization,” acting secretary John Whitley says.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The Army Requirements Oversight Council will meet to approve the TLS-EAB program on July 9.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Despite a 2018 mandate for “electronic protection” against jamming, there’s little data available showing how vulnerable systems are, said EW director David Tremper.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.A new pod-based comms system for the KC-46, enabling it to serve as a ‘translator’ for the incompatible radio systems of the F-22 and F-35, will be fielded in the last quarter of fiscal 2022.
By Theresa HitchensIn August, the Army will pick a single vendor to build the Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC), focused on countering cruise missiles and larger drones. Later upgrades will add lasers and counter-rocket capability.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Too often political and global power ambitions outstrip funding in the British military, analyst Justin Bronk writes.
By Justin Bronk