Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper’s new “Century Series” concept for building future fighter aircraft will succeed or fail based on how well the Air Force manages six issues: protecting the fighter ecosystem; rewarding design; sharing components; prioritizing numbers of aircraft designs over numbers of ...
Rapid Acquisition & Sustainment
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An exclusive interview with USAF acquisition chief Will Roper.
The Rapid Sustainment Office set out to save time and money by investing in new maintenance technologies. After just one year, the results are promising.
The Air Force expects that some of the prototyping programs launched under its recently minted Section 804 fast-track procurement authority will fail—and it’s OK with that, a senior acquisition officer told AFA’s 2019 Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Sept....
LAS VEGAS—The Air Force wants all the help it can get to tackle a wicked problem like multidomain operations. Enter: AFWERX. AFWERX—a multifaceted Air Force group broadening the service’s outreach to small businesses, helping grow startups, and touting fast prototyping...
Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord said work is already underway to meet one of 10 key recommendations the Defense Innovation Board issued in its congressionally mandated report on improving software acquisition, to be delivered to lawmakers next week.
