An expert and former defense officials told Breaking Defense that the service’s push to award high ceiling, prolonged contracts could speed up acquisition processes but ultimately only time will determine their effectiveness.
In the FY26 budget, Congress granted the Army permission to consolidate 13 lines related to electronic warfare, counter unmanned aerial systems and drones.
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
Army Undersecretary Michael Obadal said not only does the Army have problems with its major weapons systems, but also has problems with magazine depth, something the “current situation” has "absolutely" put pressure on.
Michael Obadal warned companies dissatisfied with the NGC2 effort that going to lawmakers with complaints will be a "non-starter" with the Army.
“For years we’ve been trapped by the color of money,” Army Undersecretary Michael Obadal said. “We try to buy modern, agile software with rigid funding authorities, and predictably….it doesn’t work.”
“My restrictions and my recusals are laid out in my agreement with the OGE … I am recused, writ large, from anything having to do personally and substantially with my former employer,” Michael Obadal told senators today.
The challenge for Western democratic institutions is not a lack of capability — it is a structural one.