“I share your commitment to maintaining the public’s trust in the Department of Defense,” Douglas Schmidt, the new director of operational test and evaluation, said in the letter to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
“The full-rate production decision enables the US Army to set the fielding schedule for IBCS to operational air defense units,” prime contractor Northrop Grumman said.
The Network Tactical Common Data Link system enables secure comms and ISR for carrier strike groups and their air and naval assets.
Meanwhile, the Army is eyeing accelerated production of its Lightweight Command Launch Unit in response to the ongoing war in Ukraine.
The Pentagon’s chief weapons tester recently revealed that when soldiers fire the main gun, “high levels of toxic fumes” fill the vehicle.
The service postponed its full-rate production decision by nearly a year, while working with GM Defense to retest vehicle corrections to address “deficiencies.”
The Pentagon's independent weapons tester created a "controlled" version of its annual report not available to taxpayers. But with regards to the F-35, "it's the information all public DOT&E reports have provided until now," said Dan Grazier of the Project for Government Oversight.
On today’s battlefield, mobility isn’t optional - it’s mission-critical.
"The ISV is not designed to defeat or counter specific threats nor is it intended to operate as a combat fighting platform," Steve Herrick, the senior program office official, told Breaking Defense.
“This unjustified restriction of public access will not serve to protect national security information but will instead be abused to avoid disclosure of failures in our major weapons programs,” wrote Sen. Elizabeth Warren, citing Breaking Defense reporting.
"By caving to pressure inside the Pentagon and hiding unclassified information behind a pseudo classification, the current leaders of DOT&E are undermining the effectiveness of their own agency," said Dan Grazier, a fellow with the Project on Government Oversight.
“Cybersecurity must be built into system design, and the human defender should be included early on in cyber defense engineering and programmatic priorities for both system usability and training,” according to the Pentagon's chief tester.
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
Raytheon’s currently on contract for six of the Army’s next-gen radars, but just replacing every US Army Patriot radar — the current plan — would be 80-plus sales.