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DoD has promising tech. Now it’s time to scale it up, officials say. “Michèle Flournoy, widely believed to be President-elect Joe Biden’s top pick to […]

Aerospace companies wary of digital design revolution. “With a flattening budget topline (at best) and many competing Air Force investment priorities, it’s not at all […]

Submarine industrial base ready to grow — but only in Pentagon, Congress send the right signals. “… the supply base and the two shipyards struggled […]

Report to congress on Constellation-class frigate program (FFG-62). ” Congress funded the procurement of the first FFG-62 class ship in FY2020 at a cost of […]

Cheap drones vs. expensive tanks: a battlefield game-changer? “The war has been most visibly characterised by ‘kill cam’ footage of drones attacking armoured fighting vehicles, including […]

U.S. Military Investments in Autonomy and AI .”The FY2021 U.S. defense budget request allocates $1.7 billion to autonomy to enhance “speed of maneuver and lethality […]

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 […]

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.  […]

Picking 1st ABMS capabilities to top issue. ““I’ve been waiting for the department’s equivalent of a Sputnik or Alpha-Go moment where AI did something that […]

Esper’s Convenient Lie. Argues the DoD isn’t at a good force structure for Russia/China not because of sequestration and focus on counterterrorism, but because DoD […]

Inside project convergence: How the US Army is preparing for war in the next decade. “… this generation’s digital Louisiana Maneuvers” in the Arizona desert, […]

Will Roper: Startup.mil to Startup.com? “Like the impeded response of Xerox to personal computers, Sears to e-commerce, or Blockbuster to video streaming, our military could […]

Leaders at Navy’s innovation ‘super-connector’ give advice for getting in the door. A few people have been confused on this point: NavalX does not buy […]

Air Force moving project maven into advanced battle management system portfolio. That’s nearly doubling ABMS’s FY21 request, with Maven’s Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team at […]

Please join me in a special Mason GovCon webinar event on the future of budget reform on Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 2:30pm EST. Why the […]