On Tuesday, the Air Force unexpectedly cancelled its $355 million contract to buy the Embraer Super Tucano. While service chief Gen. Norton Schwartz yesterday implied the program will be run back through a rigorous re-competition process, the Air Force’s formal filings leave some wiggle room: The service is only “setting aside” the contract award to Sierra Nevada Corporation and “reinstating” rival contractor Hawker Beechcraft “to the competitive range” while “reserving the right to conduct a whole new competition” — but not promising one outright.
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High-performance systems generate tremendous amounts of heat that can compromise missions and make high-tech systems less effective in tactical environments. But there is a solution to this modern-age challenge.
High-performance systems generate tremendous amounts of heat that can compromise missions and make high-tech systems less effective in tactical environments. But there is a solution to this modern-age challenge.
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.
Valuable intelligence insights can be gleaned from logistics or flight-test data when artificial intelligence or machine learning is applied.
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Modernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.