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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 being built or how deeply involved the JPO and acquisition leaders at DoD and the services will remain ...

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 secretary for acquisition and integration (a post formerly held by Will Roper; now in an acting role by D...

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 those dollars are spent that matters most, a point recently emphasized by Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., 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 transitioning to the new Space Systems Command, “is responsible for establishing the initial digital enginee...