The Defense Department is too conservative in its acquisitions strategy, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Frank Kendall told House legislators. “I think we’re not taking enough risk,” said Kendall during a Jan. 28 House Armed Services Committee hearing on improving DOD’s ability to respond to the pace of technological change. In new programs, Kendall said, “we’re not going to be able to reduce every risk to zero, we’ve got to be willing to put our programs out there” and assume small margins of risk, if the US is going to be No. 1 in the world in both technology and warfighting capabilities.
The U.S., South Korea, and Japan flew an unusual trilateral flight with two U.S. B-52H Stratofortress bombers escorted by two Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-2s, and two ROK Air Force KF-16 fighters—both countries’ respective variants of the F-16—July 11. That same weekend, the top military officers of the three nations…