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Andy Marshall, the Pentagon’s ‘Yoda,’ dies at age 97. A controversial character for sure. Here’s a good article on Marshall from 2014. A slice: “It […]
Andy Marshall, the Pentagon’s ‘Yoda,’ dies at age 97. A controversial character for sure. Here’s a good article on Marshall from 2014. A slice: “It […]
Motivating the military’s move to analytics is the argument that they will make assessments more sound and less subjective . . . because numbers are […]
Finally, it is clear that in the German case, as in the British, an early demonstration of the technical feasibility of the turbojet engine made […]
Sufi Bahcall has a new book out called Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries. He was […]
The President’s memorandum attempted to strike a middle ground between a “title” policy and a “license” policy. The “title” policy is based on the precept […]
The DoD does not have an effective process for doing a thorough exploration of alternative technologies and concepts. Exploration is usually done only as a […]
William Hartung joins me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss his book, Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex. […]
Good article from Breaking Defense on Shanahan, Boeing, the F-15X, and the role of OSD Cost Asssessment and Program Evaluation. Scandal watch: Navy captain charged […]
During WWII, US developers decided not to use 0.86 centimeter frequency for their “side-looking” aircraft radar because their experimental test models predicted it would have […]
For as much as the 2018 report from the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) reveals about the F-35’s lack of progress in nearly […]
The way that the defense industrial base has been progressing since World War II, one future that appears to have a reasonable likelihood is that […]
Enter HPCMP, the High Performance Computing Modernization Program. HPCMP provides the DoD with massive supercomputing capabilities and all classes of networks to transport data, as […]
There were two basic problems. First, the documentation was not timely; it was generally written during or after the development cycle. In these times of […]
“You bet on the Patriots in 2007 and, by gosh, in 2037 you’re still going to bet on the Patriots. And eventually you just go […]
Army ‘Big Six’ Ramp Up in 2021: Learning From FCS. Good charts at the link. Looks like the Army bureaucracy decided upon the next set […]
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