U.S. Navy sponsoring development of a cloud-computing environment. Not clear why this cloud work should be using significant small business (SBIR) funding. A cloud infrastructure seems to be a pretty standard product done very well by big incumbents. Here’s another question: Will it integrate with JEDI?
Right to repair: “units [could not] maintain the JLTV without support from the contractor field service representatives due to vehicle complexity…”
DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Reference Design.
“… in another case, a prime contractor’s requirements blocked a startup from work due to a lack of “record of performance” — even though technically the startup had spun out of the small business that was originally a part of the agreement.” That was from “Why the U.S. government is struggling with open innovation“.
F-35’s $1.2 billion savings claim dwindles, Senate panel finds. The block buy savings are down to between $435 and $595 million, and work on that order just started! It will take several years before we find out the real results.
“There is little room for error. Any perturbation of the complex interwoven and interlinked Virginia and Columbia class submarine production schedules could cause the whole [General Dynamics] Marine Systems unit to shift from a solid profit center to a loss leader in an instant.”
ComNavOps of the AF 5-year fighter program. Quotes from the AF: “… the NGAD [Next Generation Air Dominance] program will adopt a rapid approach to developing small batches of fighters with multiple companies… instead of trying to hone requirements to meet an unknown threat 25 years into the future, the Air Force would rapidly churn out aircraft with new technologies.” Sounds like a plan. Can you get Congress to fund each of those line items?
More on that, etc.: US Air Force’s acting secretary talks Space Force, new fighters and his next move.
Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray refueling drone successfully takes off and lands from an airport. Let’s check back when it can operate from a Navy ship and perform the refueling mission.
KC-46A tanker delayed four more years. Boeing won the competition Feb. 2011. “The Air Force currently is withholding about $28 million, or 20% of each plane’s cost, from Boeing, or more than $500 million currently on the 19 planes delivered so far.”
Air Force Pushes 3D Printing To Boost Readiness
Are meetings with industry actually accelerating military acquisitions? A slice: “Rapid Innovation Funds offer another means to keep the department ahead of the technology curve. With projects worth as much as $3 million per project, Mehney said, these dollars have been used to explore ways that soldiers can communicate when their first line of communications fail.”
U.S. government agencies had tripled their investment in blockchain intelligence firms that year.
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