Navy’s plan for managing it’s family of autonomous maritime systems
The Rapid Autonomy Integration Lab (RAIL) is an effort out of the service’s unmanned maritime systems program office… “The vision for the RAIL is that […]
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Should government own the technical baseline?
GFE — which is government furnished equipment — many times has a negative connotation to it. You would think that anytime the government is furnishing […]
The effect of the “weapon systems” concept on the defense supplier base
In 1955, for example, Fortune magazine reported that United Aircraft dealt directly with as many as 7,000 subcontractors and suppliers and North American with 10,000. […]
Why Raytheon and UTC don’t want to build weapons platforms
Neither company [Raytheon nor UTC] works as a platform producer, eschewing the production of aircraft or ground vehicles and instead focusing on the technology that […]
Big defense primes as gatekeepers to small, innovative firms
Aerospace giant Lockheed Martin and MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) announced on Sunday the creation of the MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund, promoting collaborations […]