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POLITICO Get the POLITICO Space newsletter Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or updates from POLITICO and you agree to our privacy policy and terms of service. You can unsubscribe at any time and you can contact us here. This sign-up form is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Quick Fix — Pressure grows on NASA to rethink its decision to award SpaceX the only contract for a moon lander. — as it reports progress i...

7. Gen John R. Allen, USMC, and Amir Husain, “On Hyperwar,” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 143, no. 7 (July 2017). 8. Khari Johnson, “The U.S. Military, Algorithmic Warfare, and Big Tech,” Venture Beat, 8 November 2019. 9. Ian W. Toll, Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006). 10. Submarine Force Library and Museum Association, “41 for Freedom.” 11. Erik Slavin, “Trump Wants 350-ship Navy, But How and Why?” St...

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14 Article written by Jim Ingram - Starting up your own business presents its own specialized set of challenges and unexpected headaches. In the past, doing business with the federal government proved to be an intimidating and daunting task to some. Those hurdles were even higher for minorities – a problem the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) program has been placing increased focus on recently. Ultimately, those effor...

No one likes the idea of reliving the troubled development process that produced it. Heres What You Need to Know: The F-35 has become a victim of its size and expense. Could a rethink of U.S. acquisition policies bring back the heady days of the “Century Series,” a time in which the Air Force could pick and choose between a variety of different fighters specialized in certain tasks? Could such an approach free the Pentagon from the specter of another gigantic, F-35-sized procurement project...

(This article first appeared in 2019.) In September 2019, the Air Force Assistant Secretary for technology acquisitions Will Roper called for a new “Century Series” of jet fighters.  He was referring to six U.S. jet fighters rapidly introduced into service between 1954 and 1959 that brought the U.S. Air Force into an era of supersonic jet fighter operations. They later received “Century” appellation due to receiving the designations F-100 through F-106. Roper wants a faster acquisiti...

20 Apr 2021 Share: The new U.S. Space Force has plans to experiment with the use of digital workflows and engineering to design satellites and equipment. Digital engineering — which involves collaborative work across cloud environments — would be a departure from conventional military workflows and could significantly impact how contractors and researchers work. Here, Emily Newton looks at how this pivot may also be necessary to bring operations in line with the digital approach that’...

How the Army’s Artillery Cannons are Joining the Missile Defense Game An M109 Paladin 155mm Howitzer made history recently by shooting down a fast-moving maneuvering cruise missile with a “hypervelocity projectile.” Heres What You Need to Remember: The success of the shootdown, Roper added, relied upon the integration of AI-enabled data-analytics increasingly able to gather, organize, analyze data with great reliability in a near instantaneous fashion. So not only will air-sea-and land t...

By CHRISTIAN DAVENPORT | The Washington Post | Published: April 6, 2021 The avalanche was a stunning disaster, 247 million cubic feet of glacial ice and snow hurtling down the Tibetan mountain range at 185 mph. Nine people and scores of animals were killed in an event that startled scientists around the world. As they researched why the avalanche occurred with such force, researchers studying climate change pored over images taken in the days and weeks before and saw that ominous cracks had b...

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