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By Garrett Reim2021-06-15T23:32:00+01:00 Five years from now, this might be the highlight of Bridget Lauderdale’s career. Or, it might be the bullet point on her resume that she wants to gloss over. Lauderdale has the privilege – or the burden – of taking over the management of the Lockheed Martin F-35 at a critical point. She was named vice-president and general manager of the programme in April. Source: Lockheed Martin US Air Force wants the F-35A to be the cornerstone of its fleet, but...

The Army worked with Defense Digital Services and HackerOne on the latest bug bounty that found 238 vulnerabilities, 102 being critical gaps.

By Garrett Reim2021-06-03T01:09:00+01:00 Red 6, an augmented reality fighter pilot training startup, has raised a $30 million round of financing. The company received $25 million from Snowpoint Ventures, an existing investor, with the remainder of the funds coming from other existing investors as well as new investors, it says on 1 June. Source: Red 6 Red 6 aims to digitize combat pilot training The startup is developing augmented reality flight training and dogfighting software for use in a pu...

The Air Force is moving into a “more operational” stage for its “internet of military things,” turning its KC-46 tanker into a data distribution platform.

By   Theresa Hitchens on May 18, 2021 at 3:09 PM F-35 Joint Strike Fighter assembly line WASHINGTON: The US aerospace industrial base cannot meet emerging the Air Force’s or the wider military’s needs for rapid innovation to stay ahead of peer competitors, the Mitchell Institute says.  “What we found was that the structure and business models of today’s aerospace defense industrial base is not configured to invent, develop or deliver the force, the future needs, and certainly not at...

By   Theresa Hitchens on May 13, 2021 at 5:15 PM WASHINGTON: The F-35 Joint Program Office is still evaluating when the fighter will formally clear its 20-year development phase after a new expert study of testing requirements, says JPO Director Lt. Gen. Eric Fick. However, officially passing through ‘milestone C’ into full-rate production may not matter that much, Fick told the annual McAleese defense conference today.  It will do little to change either how fast planes are already bei...

By   Theresa Hitchens on May 07, 2021 at 4:59 PM Acting Air Force Secretary John Roth, left WASHINGTON: Key House lawmakers today pushed the Air Force to move faster, and farther, to reform space acquisition — with both HAC-D Chair Rep. Betty McCollum and Ranking Member Rep. Ken Calvert expressing concern about the slow pace. In particular, lawmakers expressed impatience at the lack of movement toward creation of a new space acquisition czar independent of the Air Force’s assistant secre...

The U.S. Air Force flew an artificial intelligence system onboard a subsonic autonomous drone for the first time last month

We are lost in the woods on acquisition reform Tim Welter 2 days ago Infantrymen assigned to the Alaska National Guard, the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserve units train on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Aug. 26, 2020. (Sgt. Seth LaCount/Army National Guard) The Biden administration’s flat top-line defense budget proposal of $715 billion riled up the annual debate on how much is enough to defend the country these days. But how much is not the important question. Rather, it is how t...

By   Theresa Hitchens on May 06, 2021 at 11:23 AM As “the only U.S. military Service to be established during the Information Age,” Space Force says it has “the unique opportunity to be ‘born digital’.” WASHINGTON: Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) is creating a new virtual testing environment to apply digital engineering techniques to space acquisition — the first step in implementing the Space Force’s just-released Vision for a Digital Service. SMC, which is transition...