“There's certainly no question about the emphasis on speed, but recognizing that there's a need for judgment and flexibility in that triangle of cost schedule performance,” said Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Michael Duffey.
In this op-ed, Bill Greenwalt of AEI reflects on why eliminating the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System is a positive change for the Pentagon.
Balancing security and access to data are critical to providing users with trustworthy, reliable data for real-time decisions.
“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.
As questions hang over the future of the service’s Next Generation Air Dominance stealth jet, Maj. Gen. Joseph Kunkel, the Air Force’s director of force design and wargaming, said that “the fight looks much better when NGAD is in it.”
In this op-ed, Bill Greenwalt and Dan Patt argue that the Pentagon's Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System is inefficient and should be an early target for the new Trump administration.
UPDATED: Head of Air Force ISR, Lt. Gen. Otto, Says IG Info Out of Date WASHINGTON: The Air Force planned to buy 401 Reaper drones for $76.8 billion but didn’t know why it was going to buy that many, the Pentagon’s Inspector General says in a new report. “This occurred because Air Combat Command officials did not: “As […]
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.