Boeing’s T-7A trainer faces new delivery delay amid parts ‘challenges’
Another small schedule slip has postponed test jet deliveries to the Air Force, according to a Boeing spokesperson.
Calvelli highlights technical chops, ‘daily’ interaction as key to space acquisition oversight
"We need to break the paradigm of thinking schedule slips are OK," Air Force space acquisition czar Frank Calvelli told Breaking Defense.
‘Campaign of learning’: 6 questions about the F-35 with a lead DoD sustainment official
"What we found is that systems that are heavily reliant on contractor support, that have a minimum of government-owned intellectual property or access to the intellectual property, that the flexibility to make changes in accordance with a new national security environment is limited," Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Lowman told Breaking Defense.
For beleaguered T-7A trainer, Boeing sees global customers, others in DoD as ‘part of the strategy’
The company has incurred some $1.3 billion in charges on the delayed program, but a senior official at the Dubai Airshow sees much clearer skies ahead.
Air Force’s first T-7 touches down at Edwards AFB ahead of new test phase
“Like most test programs, we’ll have discovery and we’ll overcome it quickly,” said Air Force T-7A program lead Col. Kirt Cassell.
Only 55 percent of F-35s mission capable, putting depot work in spotlight: GAO
A sweeping report on sustainment of the F-35 from the Government Accountability Office found that a lack of depot capacity is hurting the fighter’s mission capable rates, with other problems in access to technical data, availability of parts and over-reliance on contractors for maintenance.
Air Force gets first Red Hawk trainer, Compass Call electronic warfare jet
To meet the program's delayed production decision, set for February 2025, the T-7A will need to qualify its escape system and finish its flight control software, though officials expressed confidence the jet could achieve the goal.
Congressional watchdog ‘expects’ to open new investigation of SPACECOM basing choice
Meanwhile, Alabama's Attorney General Steve Marshall on Tuesday sent a letter to the Pentagon's Office of the Inspector General asking it to also investigate the decision.
No protests: Army clears hurdle to keep OMFV — now XM30 — development work rolling
“While we are disappointed with the result, we remain focused on producing quality vehicles and expanded capabilities for soldiers,” said a spokesperson for BAE Systems, among the competitors not chosen to move forward.
Does Pentagon need an overarching AI acquisition plan? A key official is wary
“What we've really been trying to wrestle with inside of CDAO is not to over centralize because the department is so diverse and distributed and so large, that we want innovation to happen at the edge,” said Margaret Palmieri, deputy chief digital and AI officer.
Pentagon lacks ‘comprehensive’ strategy for buying AI tech, GAO warns
GAO says the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI office (CDAO) should develop a department-wide AI acquisition strategy and that the military services should also develop their own guidance to help navigate the AI acquisition process.
Lockheed eyes locking down next F-35 production agreement by end of year
In an interview with Breaking Defense, Lockheed exec Greg Ulmer pushed back on the Pentagon's complaints about technical data sharing, and said the firm is working with the DoD on better ways to track spare parts.
Cost, schedule for Coast Guard’s new cutter is sailing off course: GAO
The watchdog found the program's cost has increased 40 percent over the past 10 years, and accumulated a year-and-a-half delay on the first four vessels.
Prodded by GAO, Space Force reconsiders future military-use GPS constellation, receivers
The Space Force has set contradictory requirements for the number of M-code capable GPS satellites, the Government Accountability Office found.
After being axed by the Pentagon, alternate F-35 engine sees funding in key NDAA draft
“We did the AETP line to keep that technology going as we head into sixth-generation aircraft that the Air Force and Navy are hoping to field in the 2030s,” a senior congressional aide said of the decision to seek continued funding for AETP.