White House nominee for Joint Chiefs’ vice chair backs Pentagon budgeting reforms
Marine Corps Gen. Christopher Mahoney also weighed in, carefully, on whether the Navy needs a next-gen fighter jet.
Pentagon’s budget process needs ‘fundamental restructuring,’ panel says
The almost 400-page PPBE report draws on two years of research and more than 400 interviews, and resulted in 28 recommendations, half of which are denoted as key changes.
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
‘Wake up call’: Panel identifies 5 ‘key’ ways Pentagon can reform budget process now
“I think that there's a demand signal for change given what we've seen in Ukraine... and then obviously, everyone has eyes on China,” said commission vice chair Ellen Lord.
New defense strategy may be ‘incremental,’ but crux is implementation: Ex-officials
“Quite often there are ethereal words about a vision of where to go, which is very important,” said Ellen Lord, the Pentagon's former top acquisition official. “But I think that needs to be reduced to what are we going to do? When are we going to do it and who’s going to do it?”
Pentagon IP office lacks support, expertise: GAO
The Pentagon's small IP Cadre office is facing challenges since its establishment in 2019.
US, India To Co-Develop Military Drones
"The DTTI has struggled to maintain momentum in recent years, but this new project may signal a renewed mutual interest in substantial progress for capability benefits," says Chris Bassler of CSBA.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
New NDIA Spin-Off Focuses On Building Next-Gen Tech Base For DoD
The institute will concentrate on artificial intelligence; autonomy; biotechnology; cyber; directed energy; command, control and communications; hypersonics; microelectronics; quantum science; space; and '5G to Next G.'
Biden Nominates Shyu To Lead Weapons Transformation
If confirmed, Shyu and Brown will come into the Pentagon in the midst of what civilian leaders promise is a major shift: divesting old, Cold War-era equipment for new generations of AI-enabled weapons, unmanned systems, and hypersonic missiles.
DoD Weighs More ‘Organic’ F-35 Maintenance; Bartering With Lockheed
"We've always been bullish on the program's prospects, but admit we're more worried than we have been in a long time," wrote Roman Schweizer of Cowen Washington Research Group.
DoD’s New Pushback Against Chinese Money In US Defense Industry
"The proactive, nefarious work coming from China and Russia in particular [will make US policymakers] “realize that we don't have control over everything that we think we have control over,” Tara Murphy Dougherty, CEO of Govini said
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
China Supply Chain, Backdoor Money ‘Huge Priority’ For Biden Pentagon
"What is clear is that this issue of technology competition is of increasing importance in the US / China relationship" SecDef advisor Ely Ratner said, and it is "a huge priority for the administration."
Space Acquisition Office Takes Shape, But Status Remains Unresolved
The question about who ultimately will be in charge of making decisions about what the Space Force buys will now fall to the incoming Air Force secretary, DoD Secretary Lloyd Austin and the Biden White House.
Air Force Leaders Exits ‘Business As Usual, Experts Say; Roper Rumors
Outgoing AF acquisition head Will Roper is rumored "to be in the mix" to take DoD acquisition czar Ellen Lord's place, along with CSIS's Andrew Hunter.
‘With So Much At Stake’ SASC Rushes To Confirm Biden’s SecDef
Lloyd Austin could be voted in quickly, giving the Biden administration a confirmed Defense Secretary quickly after inauguration