“As you surely know, there is a lot of emotion in this on both sides of the argument, making it as much political as it is legal,” said attorney Henry Hertzfeld of the DARPA plans.
By Theresa HitchensWhat weapons and engines will let loyal wingmen drones hit their potential?
In the fourth video in our CCA series, Breaking Defense looks in the details for the future fleet. For the full CCA video series click here.
The question about who ultimately will be in charge of making decisions about what the Space Force buys will now fall to the incoming Air Force secretary, DoD Secretary Lloyd Austin and the Biden White House.
By Theresa Hitchens
Outgoing AF acquisition head Will Roper is rumored “to be in the mix” to take DoD acquisition czar Ellen Lord’s place, along with CSIS’s Andrew Hunter.
By Theresa Hitchens
The massive hack of federal and private networks isn’t an act of war by any definition, experts agree. It’s a staggering intelligence disaster. So how do we prevent it happening again?
By Theresa Hitchens
The Air Force’s new AI copilot could next be flown by a Skyborg drone, says AF acquisition czar Will Roper.
By Theresa Hitchens
“For flying an instrument approach, having an AI copilot makes sense,” says retired general ‘Hawk’ Carlisle, former head of Air Combat Command.
By Theresa Hitchens
The Space Prime effort could support game-changing “space transport and logistics” capabilities, says Col. Eric Felt, head of AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate.
By Theresa Hitchens
Capability exists to simulate the future of kill chains at theater scale
A tool to explore what-if scenarios and tradeoffs at the theater-level faster than traditional analysis.
“We will begin designing future ‘Prime’ programs focused on space, autonomy, energy, gaming, supersonics and microelectronics,” Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett said.
By Theresa Hitchens
Authorizers want CAPE to assess costs and risks of the “aggressive and uncertain plan” Digital Century Series approach to acquire NGAD aircraft.
By Theresa Hitchens
“When you can launch an austere airbase in a space capsule, that’s frickin’ awesome,” says AF acquisition head Will Roper about the idea of suborbital transport spacecraft.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The business case is a naïve bet on out-year operating cost savings – that’s an act the Hill has seen before, and it never pays off,” independent analyst Rebecca Grant says of the Digital Century Series concept.
By Theresa Hitchens
Video interview: Dunlap says the F-35, the F-22, “even a KC-46 tanker” and ground assets will be able to share data in fiscal 2022.
By Colin Clark
“With a flattening budget topline (at best) and many competing Air Force investment priorities, it’s not at all clear that this program will continue. We might just be left with a museum-ready prototype,” Teal Group’s Richard Aboulafia says.
By Theresa Hitchens
The US, Russia and China all could be building things in space within 15 years, an IDA study found.
By Theresa Hitchens
