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Air Force’s NGAD needs to be a “team of systems,” not a “family of systems”

July 22, 2022 Eric Lofgren 1

I recently blogged about the family of systems concept for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. NGAD is envisioned to be more […]

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Massive ABMS contract to an unknown 5-person firm [UPDATED]

June 1, 2020 Eric Lofgren 4

Under the $950,000,000 award ceiling, Hellebore will support the maturation, demonstration, and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains to enable Joint All Domain Command […]

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IP rights, enterprise tools, and the new Software Acquisition Pathway

February 11, 2020 Eric Lofgren 2

A crucial component of the acquisition strategy is a plan for intellectual property (IP). As the recently released intellectual property policy specified, IP plans emphasize “the criticality […]

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