If software and agentic AI are key to mission success, accelerate them to the front lines
A commercial prototype in a sandbox is different from deploying AI across classified networks.
With Boeing and Lockheed both dropping out of the competition to replace the Navy's T-45, service officials need to press ahead, columnist Robbin Laird writes.
In his first op-ed since leaving service, Jim Slife, the former Air Force No. 2 officer, lays out how space procurement has been stymied in the past.
The plan involves different defensive systems dispersed across small satellite ships, which can be connected to a mother ship in a disaggregated model.
“So, the way I read the memo is great, we can go a lot faster now but the big question that remains is, ‘Are we moving faster in the right direction?’” a service official said.