“If our industrial base collapses any more, we’ll have to nationalize advanced aviation and maybe other parts of the Air Force that currently are competitive,” […]
In 1972, Jerry Hess interviews Wilfred McNeil, the Department of Defense’s Comptroller for the first five Secretaries of Defense: HESS: What were your views on […]
Potentially in quantum computing there are some answers to why classical computational algorithms might not be able to get certain human reasoning tasks done. Nonetheless, […]
In a White House news-press, [Trump] said he had spoken with the Joint Chiefs a few days before then about the “super duper” missile that […]
US Air Force ready to test tech for new battle management system. “The vision involves networking every shooter and sensor to a cloud computing environment […]
Taking the place of the Draft Presidential Memorandum was a new document called the Program Objective Memorandum (POM), through which the services could outline their […]
As the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has documented, lead ships in new classes of naval vessels routinely fail to meet expectations… It was not always this […]
Commanders in the field have increasingly been slapping DoD with “joint urgent operational needs” for equipment that does not need to rely on GPS because […]
David Deptula: Which parts of the Air Force acquisition organization do you see migrating to the Space Force? And are there any organizations that will […]
A draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act the House Armed Services Committee will begin debating this week includes a provision requiring DoD to develop a […]
Three of the co-founders of the Air Force Ventures program at AFWERX joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss how they transition startups […]
ABMS moves ahead with second round of contract awards. Adds 18 companies to 28 previously selected to compete for ABMS work. That sounds like a […]
… little actual headway was made in 1940, primarily because the Army and Navy field procurement officers had been sharply reminded, in the course of […]
In contrast to tanks, ships, and planes, a disproportionate share of the life-cycle cost in space acquisition is in the research and development phase. Indeed, […]
Mr McMahon (staffer): Because of the multiyear contract that the Virginia-class is under, if the second FY21 boat is not authorized and appropriated, the shipbuilders […]
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