"You cannot start a new business right now and reach any kind of scale working with the Department of Defense. Period," Anduril's Matthew Steckman told a defense conference of FAR-based contracts, weeks after nearly $1 billion contract win.
“I've concluded, consistent with the analysis, that we need a naval force of over 500 ships," the Navy's top admiral told attendees at the West 2022 conference in San Diego.
Navy officials insist that Project Overmatch is critical for JADC2 and the future fight, but the effort's chief said — beyond an analogy to Yelp — the secrecy is intentional.
“I think that’s a common understanding from those that have been in the Pentagon – We don’t in all cases have the data we need or if we do, it’s not the quality that we need or timeliness or some other facets,” Randal Cole, deputy chief data officer, said. “And so I think that is an ongoing challenge.”
While not offering numbers, Vice Adm. Kenneth Whitesell says he's following new "north stars" to ensure Navy's aircraft ready for a fight.
The Navy's top admiral wants to see unmanned platforms operating in the fleet by the 2030s, but has also taken clues from Congress about the service's approach.
The first choppers are expected by 2025, but the addition of Israeli high-tech systems could delay delivery, sources said.
The company is developing the Open Systems Interoperable and Reconfigurable Infrastructure Solution for the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering through September 2024.
"Given the sensitivity of information widely available on unclassified [cleared contractor] networks, the FBI, NSA, and CISA anticipate that Russian state-sponsored cyber actors will continue to target CDCs for U.S. defense information in the near future."
“There’s a cost to your IP, there’s a cost to the US government and there’s a benefit to our adversaries if we don’t do something like this,” DoD Chief Information Officer John Sherman said of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.
“That's our biggest challenge, straight up, is people right now,” Peter Radzicki, manager for new construction strategic planning, told Breaking Defense.
Mark Cancian of CSIS lays out five major lessons that could be learned from a Russia-Ukraine conflict.