MDA Chief Lt. Gen. Heath Collins said more maneuverable missiles and drones have changed the missile defense game: Instead of just preparing to hit “fastballs,” he said, “now we’re hitting sliders and curveballs.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.The biggest pot of money sought is for a program whose details are listed as “Description withheld. Classified topic. Materials available at higher level.”
By Aaron Mehta and Valerie Insinna“On an annual basis, we have a CR, half the year’s gone,” the undersecretary for Research & Engineering said. “Our adversary doesn’t have the same constraints.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.Although slim on details, Heidi Shyu told reporters today that DoD will conduct a Technology Readiness Experimentation event sometime this year with its Australian counterparts and will conduct a new sprint of RDER with them next year.
By Jaspreet Gill“So the decision at the DMAG will be, should that be a single service, or [does] every service just buy what they want, right?” Heidi Shyu told reporters about the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve.
By Jaspreet Gill“A path that I proposed is linking that together to show a portfolio of capabilities,” Heidi Shyu said about a new AUKUS announcement. “So that will be coming out soon.”
By Jaspreet Gill“The establishment of these roles within Research & Engineering better positions our team to execute upon our mission of preserving our nation’s technological edge, now and into the future,” Heidi Shyu, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said.
By Jaspreet GillIn addition to Heidi Shyu’s expanded role, lawmakers have tasked the undersecretary of research and engineering to develop a strategy on how the Pentagon can leverage intellectual property to “enhance” its ability to procure emerging technologies and outpace adversaries.
By Jaspreet GillA portion of the experiment will include opportunities for industry to showcase their technologies through a prototype technology display.
By Jaspreet GillThe plan lays out three lines of efforts: accelerating the development of joint warfighting capabilities, fielding capabilities at speed and scale, and ensuring the foundations for research and development through workforce development and upgrading physical and digital infrastructure.
By Jaspreet Gill“Industry has told us that they they think they can go faster, and we’re hopeful that we can accelerate the program,” said Laura DeSimone, Missile Defense Agency executive director.
By Theresa Hitchens“We need to take advantage of the diversity of novel ideas and products available from the commercial sector to complement the DoD space and deliver capabilities to our warfighter at a far quicker pace,” said Heidi Shyu, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
By Jaspreet Gill“Everything we’ve been doing is very much focused in on the joint warfighting capabilities and what we need to do to fight as a joint force,” said Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
By Jaspreet GillWith the delivery of the first set of prototypes, “the pendulum is swinging back to onshoring our own domestic capabilities,” Heidi Shyu, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, told reporters.
By Jaspreet Gill