Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts arguing to scrap the JCIDS process say the military needs more rapid acquisition processes, such as the model that helped ...
Maj. Gen. Phil Brooks, center, observes students disable drones at the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems University. (Christopher Wilson/Army) The Department of Defense has scuttled the ...
Defense policy analysts are a fractious bunch. But if there is one thing they all seem to agree on, it is a shared distaste for the current Defense Department acquisition process. Calls for ...
When the secretary of defense signed a new memorandum last week, few outside DoD acquisition circles may have noticed, with the curious exception of Laura Loomer on X. There was not much fanfare, but ...
For years, I've watched the Pentagon's innovation process with the same mixture of frustration and respect that a coach feels for a team with immense potential but a flawed game plan. So when I heard ...
Here, there are echoes of Gates: That process simply takes too long, he says, pointing to the Joint Capabilities Integration Development System, or JCIDS. “al-Qaida doesn’t have a JCIDS process,” he ...
Being stuck in yesterday’s thinking isn’t a new problem for the U.S. military. In 1898, Alfred Mahan said that “no service can or should be expected to reform itself.” Fast-forward to the 1950s and ...
Experts arguing to scrap the JCIDS process say the military needs more rapid acquisition processes, such as the model that helped develop Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, shown here, during ...
The Department of Defense has scuttled the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS). In a memorandum signed last week, Defense Secretary Hegseth and Deputy Secretary Feinberg ...