Acquisition Headlines
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 […]
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Acquisition Headlines
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 […]
Acquisition Headlines
“I can guarantee that no Air Force maintainer will ever name their daughter ‘Alice.’ ” That was from an article about the F-35 logistics system, […]
Acquisition Headlines
“We had one underlying element of comfort and reassurance during the war,” Lockheed’s president wrote. “We knew we’d get paid for anything we built.” The […]
Acquisition Headlines
“American global defense company Northrop Grumman has been granted a patent for a composite 3D printing process and device.” “A federal judge delayed a lawsuit […]
Acquisition Headlines
Good sentences on acquisition: “Maintaining America’s military advantage is not just about acquiring the latest technology. It is about the people, organizations, and cultures that […]
Sunday Links
“despite significant efforts to improve P-8A intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) sensors, overall P-8A ISR mission capabilities remain limited by sensor performance shortfalls.” And the P-8A […]
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Students Design $1.25 Piece to Help Prevent B-2 Stealth Bomber Emergencies. Top response to the article: “Dumb students… they could have charged at least twice […]
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Confessions Of A U.S. Marine F/A-18 Hornet Maintainer. Boeing says it has successfully completed the first test flight of a prototype for its autonomous passenger […]
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U.S. Air Force installed first 3D printed part on an operational F-22. “No LCS deployed in 2018… No module exists yet in a useful, effective […]
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Army acquisition chief answers questions, seems involved in day-to-day program decisions. Map showing where the US military operates across the world. Interesting. … in a recent […]
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I guess we’ll never learn the ills of concurrency. Who keeps Congress accountable for bad decisions? Here’s Navy Matters on the CVN-78. Interesting Quora thread […]
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“We are going to invert that approach and take a clean sheet of paper and write the absolute bare minimum to be compliant in 5000.02, […]
Sunday Links
The LCS modules, private contractors, Murphy’s Law in the Pentagon, Israel’s defense industry, Trumps executive order 12771, JEDI cloud, and the F-22.
Sunday Links
Update on the readiness crisis. Electronic warfare. Jedi cloud computing contract. Aviation crisis. Revolving door stats.