“Big software developments fail,” said Air Force space acquisition czar Frank Calvelli. “You have to go to smaller systems.”
By Theresa HitchensWith AI and computer vision, almost any platform can be autonomous
The use of computer vision and perceptive autonomy can have a profound impact on speeding the Observe, Orient, Decide and Act (OODA) loop.
This is Kelsey Atherton’s first story for Breaking D. We are most glad to welcome him to our shop after his years of covering cyber, IT and all that’s related. He’ll write for you each week on these topics. Read on! The Editor. ALBUQUERQUE — The Navy is looking for a sea change…
By Kelsey Atherton
Roper expects GBSD, B-21 and F-35 to migrate parts of their development to cloudONE as he pushes the Air Force to embrace advanced software practices.
By Theresa Hitchens
The inability of DoD to tailor its processes to incentivize non-traditional participation in the market has serious national security implications.
By Bill Greenwalt
Maintaining the US natsec industry’s technological edge will require “a more coordinated and collaborative effort among all stakeholders—government, academia, and private sector actors,” says former Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work.
By Theresa Hitchens
WASHINGTON: After three years during which it’s been the Air Force’s greatest problem child, Raytheon’s next-generation ground control system for GPS satellites is back on track, the company’s top man on the program says. Ellen Lord, the head of Pentagon acquisition, and Will Roper, head of Air Force acquisition, met with Bill Sullivan and other…
By Colin Clark
Punching through clogged networks to reach soldiers: Time Sensitive Networking
New platforms such as OMFV and FLRAA will depend on Time Sensitive Networking to get data through.
We’re partnering with the Center for Strategic and International Studies to bring you their fab Bad Ideas series through the Christmas holiday season. They produced three today. I’m betting Sen. John McCain will most enjoy the first of the three, this one by Andrew Hunter, on why it’s so damn complex and often difficult to know just…
By Andrew Hunter
CAPITOL HILL: If Sikorsky reaches the next Combat Rescue Helicopter milestone early, the Air Force will reward the Lockheed Martin subsidiary and “immediately go ahead to” production. “We’ll see how this goes,” Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, the military deputy for Air Force acquisition, said this morning, saying the effort is an experiment the service was…
By Colin Clark
Michèle A. Flournoy and Wendy R. Anderson lay out their vision for how the Pentagon can speed software acquisition in this new op-ed.
By Wendy R. Anderson and Michele A. Flournoy