“Don’t let us tell you all that the uniformed contracting officers are the ones that are the problem,” Boeing’s Michael Manazir said. “We have a shared problem and we’ve got to be able to figure out how to break through” it.
By Jaspreet GillA 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.
“Our message to TransDigm today is simple: pay back the money,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY and chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
By Andrew Eversden
American firms may be seeing dollar signs from Warsaw’s pledge to “buy more American equipment,” but there are a lot of hurdles.
By Bartosz Głowacki
The GAO decision sustained a protest from Microsoft, saying the agency’s evaluation was partly “unreasonable.”
By Andrew Eversden
The RFP includes a guide to help startups, small businesses, and non-traditional defense contractors participate. AI ethics and security are focal points.
By Brad D. Williams
Applying AI to everything from predictive maintenance to financial management can save the military billions, the director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center told us – if the Pentagon can reform its cumbersome bureaucracy to exploit rapid advances in technology.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
In future wars, AI, networks, and analytics won’t just help target precision weapons: They can also liberate combat units from long and vulnerable supply lines. But to make that work, AMC commander Gen. Ed Daly told us, frontline troops need a constant flow of data.
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 Army will effectively rent back-office IT “as a service” from contractors, allowing it to focus on modernizing the front-line network.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Awards for Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft designs went to Bell, Boeing, Karem, Sikorsky, and a partnership of AVX and L-3.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Quality control problems at Boeing are just part of wider supply shortfalls that could hamstring Army helicopters in a major war.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Army’s got lots of really old IT on its bases which may not hold up in a real war.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is looking to get a tighter grip on how it pays large defense contractors, and has drawn up plans to cut up front costs while rewarding companies that hit their milestones on time. The defense industry, however, isn’t happy about it. Every major defense industry trade association voiced opposition to the…
By Paul McLeary
The head of the Special Operations Command is concerned that even the most advanced tech his troops use in the field today is being aged out, given rapid advances in commercial technologies that have overtaken military-grade gear.
By Paul McLeary
if you can deliver new technology really fast, the US Army is now willing to pay your company much higher profits. And it’s working hard to make sure that new tech actually gets to new weapons.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
