Marine Corps Gen. Michael Hagee told reporters in Washington today that progress via the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System is moving too slowly. He stopped short of criticizing the JCIDS concept, but said, “The process … would I like to see it go faster? Yes.” JCIDS is at the core of the Pentagon’s shift away from service-specific weapons development toward a process that leads to joint decisions about what capabilities DOD needs. “I would agree the process is frustrating and slow,” said Hagee, adding that from his perspective the system needs better modeling. Too much of what currently is in use is inherently manual in nature.
The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas—will be a “case study” on the complex web of authorities needed to employ such weapons near civilian areas and the consequences of agencies…
