New SpoC head Lt. Gen. David Miller said decisions about new Integrated Mission Deltas are expected “in the coming weeks.”
By Theresa HitchensB-21, hypersonics and more: How digital development is driving industry innovation
Technological advancements are key to keeping pace with customer demands and evolving threat landscapes.
“We need to break the paradigm of thinking schedule slips are OK,” Air Force space acquisition czar Frank Calvelli told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space Force has made some visible progress in its “pivot” towards resiliency, but acquisition reform remains a hard slog.
By Theresa Hitchens
“I don’t care what it takes to get after the threat. That’s really the cultural change that we’re embarking upon,” SSC head Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein told the Space Force Association’s inaugural Spacepower conference.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Defense Business Board study, however, recommends against folding the NRO and MDA into the Space Force.
By Theresa Hitchens “Big software developments fail,” said Air Force space acquisition czar Frank Calvelli. “You have to go to smaller systems.”
By Theresa Hitchens
Brig. Gen. Jason Cothern, Space Systems Command deputy commander, said that the new deltas will be organized along the same lines as SSC’s current Acquisition Deltas.
By Theresa Hitchens
GA-ASI’s MQ-9B: The right UAV for persistence, power, and performance
When assessing the state of the art of unmanned aerial systems, it’s critical to be very clear about what various aircraft can and can’t do – and could never do.
The unclassified strategy communicates “our commitment to protect the Joint Force from adversary hostile uses of space,” said DoD Space Policy czar John Plumb.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The good news about this approach is this really fits my priority of speed, speed and speed,” Frank Calvelli, space acquisition czar at the Department of the Air Force, said of the plan to have NRO take the lead with Space Force oversight and some funding.
By Theresa Hitchens
If contractors are put on the Contractor Responsibility Watch List for failure to meet cost and schedule performance goals, the Space Force has “the ability at that point not to award them any new contracts.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“The outernet is the internet taken to space,” Col. Eric Felt, of the Department of the Air Force’s space acquisition office, said today.
By Theresa Hitchens “Looking at the data, there is more work to be done to meet the desired cost and schedule results, and we continue to drive program management discipline in line with my nine acquisition tenets and simple formula for going fast in space acquisition,” Frank Calvelli, head of space acquisition for the Department of the Air Force, told Breaking Defense.
By Theresa Hitchens
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Millennium Space Systems’ Vice President of Contracts Joshua Madrigal shares how contracting plays a critical role in acquisition.
By Millennium Space Systems
While there’s broad support on the Hill for space operations, long-time space budget guru Mike Tierney says language in recent policy and appropriations bills suggests lawmakers want Space Force and the Pentagon to “show their work.”
By Theresa Hitchens
