“We still buy IT as if it was a weapon system,” John Hale, chief of cloud services at DISA, said, adding that he sometimes felt he’s “banged [his] head against the wall.”
By Carley WelchCapability exists to simulate the future of kill chains at theater scale
A tool to explore what-if scenarios and tradeoffs at the theater-level faster than traditional analysis.
“There’s a supplier base, for example, underneath the primes that we have to also be aware of,” the Army’s acquisition chief said of balancing cuts to older platforms with modernization.
By Andrew Eversden
The 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
The Pentagon acquisition system has gotten so bad that it is undermining the nation’s military and literally obstructing modernization efforts, a panel of independent advisers told the House Armed Services Committee today. Representatives of the congressionally-mandated “809 panel” painted an alarming picture of the state of defense procurement. The panel delivered an interim report to the…
By Sandra Erwin
WASHINGTON: The men who urgently want to be commander in chief of the United States military offered a glum vision of the state of the armed services last night. Jeb Bush: In this administration, every weapon system has been gutted, in this administration, the force levels are going down to a level where we can’t…
By Colin ClarkWASHINGTON: “If we’re going to fix it, we’re going to have to take some risks.” That’s the core of Norman Augustine’s vision for Pentagon acquisition reform: He who dares may not always win, but he who doesn’t dare never will. The military’s system for buying weapons is so afraid of failure, the legendary former Lockheed…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.PENTAGON: Unhappy with the Air Force’s handling of the long-simmering problems with the oxygen system on the most expensive fighter plane in history, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ordered restrictions on F-22 flights and told the Air Force to speed up its efforts to prevent Raptor pilots from experiencing life-threatening hypoxia in flight. It certainly looks…
By Otto Kreisher
Autonomy changes everything about combat engineering
Sending robotic vehicles into the breach saves lives by removing humans from one of the most dangerous places on the battlefield.
WASHINGTON: Defense lawmakers blessed the Navy’s plans to begin a new multiyear plan to bolster its fleet of MH-60 combat helicopters, according to legislation passed this week. Earlier this week, lawmakers approved two new multiyear procurement plans pitched by the Navy as part of the final version of the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill. The…
By Carlo Munoz
