Space acquisition review calls for cutting red tape, empowering acquisition chief
The Defense Business Board study, however, recommends against folding the NRO and MDA into the Space Force.
EXCLUSIVE JADC2 Strategy To Hit Milley’s Desk In Days
"This is a change in the way that the JROC has historically worked," Stuart Whitehead, J6 deputy director for cyber and C4 integration says. "In order for JADC2 to work, requirements -- particularly at the enterprise level -- have to be understood and documented in a way that so that we can describe our requirements to our acquisition counterparts in a more specific way than maybe what we had done previously."
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DoD Needs New Measures For Valuing Weapons: Mitchell
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon should not judge weapon systems on “overly simplistic metrics” but adopt a more holistic evaluation that weighs a weapon’s cost and capabilities against the total costs of achieving the mission, a new paper from the Mitchell Institute argues. “All we ever hear is, that the F-22 and the F-35 are expensive. But […]
Space Acquisition: Speed May Not Fix Problems, Critics Say
"The answer isn't 'we've just gotta go fast'," said one critic.
AFSPC Deputy & SMC Chief Call For Requirements Changes
COLORADO SPRINGS: The head of Space and Missile Systems Center hinted at what he calls a re-architecting of what many believe to be one of the military’s most stovepiped organizations, calling for faster acquisition and major changes to how the Pentagon decides what weapons it’s going to buy. “Some of you may have heard the US has […]
DoD IG Criticizes Air Force Reaper Buy
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 Otto, Says IG Info Out of Date WASHINGTON: The Air Force planned to buy 401 Reaper drones for $76.8 billion but didn’t know why it was going to buy that many, the Pentagon’s Inspector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 […]
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