BOSTON: “It’s like running through a briar patch naked,” Will Roper said of trying to bring start-up companies into the service’s contracting model to keep apace of commercial innovation. “You have to be willing to bleed a little bit,” Roper, the Air Force’s top acquisition official told me in an interview last Thursday, after watching 10 newborn… Keep reading →

The Army will effectively rent back-office IT “as a service” from contractors, allowing it to focus on modernizing the front-line network.

After decades using the same clunky simulators, the Army is about to buy new sims drawing on the latest innovations in online gaming.

The Army must take risks to modernize, the Futures Command chief said, and the modernization effort will survive the inevitable failures along the way.

Acquisition chief Ellen Lord wants a radically new way of buying software, but appropriators have to approve.

While Congress wrestles with CH-47 cuts, Army leaders are already looking ahead to hard decisions on high tech.

The famously hoodie-clad founder of the Defense Digital Service defends his legacy as he prepares to hand over the helm.

When Washington heavyweights like Peter Levine, former Democratic staff director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Bill Greenwalt, former deputy undersecretary of Defense for industrial policy and longtime Republican acquisition expert on the SASC, say you got something wrong, people listen. That is especially the case if you were the folks who Levine and… Keep reading →

Awards for Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft designs went to Bell, Boeing, Karem, Sikorsky, and a partnership of AVX and L-3.

Quality control problems at Boeing are just part of wider supply shortfalls that could hamstring Army helicopters in a major war.