GAO: Aircraft Mission Capable Rates Generally Did Not Meet Goals and Cost of Sustaining Selected Weapon Systems Varied Widely. “We found that of the 46 individual fixed- and rotary-wing types of aircraft we examined, only three met the service-established mission capable goal for fiscal year 2019.”
Gibbs & Cox DLBA division selected to support DARPA NOMARS USV program. “The program will design, build, and field test an unmanned surface ship that can operate autonomously for long durations at sea with no human interventions or underway maintenance.”
Advanced Battle Management System Program takes new step. A creative way to get more funds by transferring effort to the Rapid Capabilities Office? “Roper cited an inherited acquisition system, which does not “deal well with cross-cutting capabilities or with capabilities that continually update” as an issue prior to transferring ABMS to the RCO.”
Preston Dunlap: ‘A Thousand Kill Chains In Your Pocket’. Video series.
DOD prioritizes december launch of Trusted Capital Marketplace. Its alive! “We are literally just going through federal paperwork right now to launch this,” she [Ellen Lord] said. “I’m really excited about our Trusted Capital Marketplace.”
Pentagon builds new sensing weapons for space war. “… weapons are moving from design to production in record time … all because of fast-moving digital engineering innovations.”
Cracks in the great stagnation. “If some combination of those things happen, we will look back at the roaring 20’s as the decade which broke through the Great Stagnation.”
Joe Biden considers retired general Lloyd Austin for Pentagon chief. “Joe Biden is considering retired four-star General Lloyd Austin as his nominee for defense secretary, adding him to a shortlist that includes Jeh Johnson, Tammy Duckworth and Michele Flournoy, two sources with direct knowledge of the decision-making tell Axios.”
Lockheed Martin completes acquisition of i3 Hypersonic Portfolio. LM is buying the software know-how for hypersonics? “Integration Innovation Inc. (i3), a software and systems engineering company based in Huntsville, Alabama.”
Loitering Munitions (aka suicide drones) are getting deadlier every year. “The first loitering munition, the Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Harpy, combined the drone and the anti-radar missile. The Harpy would be launched and enter a searching pattern, waiting for a radar to activate.”
Deceptive electronic warfare in multidomain operations. “Though essentially only a concept right now, the hope is to omit an electromagnetic spectrum to do several things, explained Rehn. “One is how do I use that deceptive capability to replicate the emissions.”
The MoD’s procurement disaster is tanking the British Army. “Leaked reports now suggest that the entire tank fleet is on the chopping block and may not survive the ongoing reconfiguration known as the ‘Integrated Review’.”
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