The prospect of technological advances still persuades planners and decisionmakers to seek increased performance, greater precision, added function capability, and thus more complexity, all of […]
The length of time between the start of budget planning and execution strains any organization’s predictive capabilities. The process effectively asks the individuals and organization […]
As background, we’re all aware U.S. military aviation has been collapsing for nearly 40 years. In the 1950s, over a dozen companies built spiraling supersonic […]
Mike Petters, President and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries: “Lack of resiliency comes from an overemphasis on efficiency at expense of risk management. I was […]
Most companies over-optimize for efficiency. They want to get so good at their current market that they lose flexibility to adjust to the future. And […]
DoD developing new ways to fund agile software development. ““What I want to see is tangible output,” she said. “And what I think our new […]
Working with government requires understanding the ins and outs of the literally thousands of pages of regulations: intellectual property rules that are unique to government, […]
Anduril is best known for supplying surveillance towers and software used to watch over the US-Mexico border and some US bases. Now, it is retooling the software […]
US Army and USAF to jointly develop battlefield network, called CJADC2. Combines Army Project Convergence with Advanced Battle Management System. Navy have been less public. […]
One point is the difference in overhead rates between defense and commercial-type business… First, perhaps, are the ways in which competitive bidding is often carried out. I […]
Ryan “Stinger” Fishel joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the future of the fighter aircraft community. Ryan is an F-15E pilot for […]
Here’s a nice exchange between Agnes Callard and Russ Roberts on EconTalk. Remember — the defense resource allocation process, the PPBE, was explicitly created on […]
Programs executing the software acquisition pathway are not subject to the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), and will be handled as specifically provided […]
The development of accurate and meaningful metrics was challenging. It was often difficult to connect goals with statistics that were easily collected and calculated, especially […]
Such joint efforts and the use of digital engineering could allow smaller defense firms to focus on design work, whether for the whole aircraft of […]
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