Valkyrie Vision
15
Jun
NGAD, we hardly knew ye
US Air Force chief of staff Gen. David Allvin set the cat among the pigeons on Thursday by suggesting that the service might not proceed as expected with its planned next major combat aircraft, the Next Generation Air Dominance program.
This came as a shock,...
28
May
Ask A Silly Question
DARPA needs to think more about mission engineering if it wants projects to succeed
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is full of very smart people united by a good intention: to find and enable technological breakthroughs that provide the U.S. and its allies...
20
May
And This Mess Is So Big
Yes, this is a Dr. Seuss reference. And this is where you can buy my book, which you should, if you want to understand what the bleep is going on in defense acquisition.
"Oh, another negative GAO report on F-35", yawn the usual suspects....
13
May
Trillion Dollar Trainwreck
Trillion Dollar Trainwreck is published worldwide by Valkyrie Strategic Solutions LLC via Kindle Direct Publishing.
This project snuck up on me. It emerged from some notes I had put together a few years ago, plus some research I started last fall. In part, the...
17
Apr
Counting The Legs
The last few days of F-35 news took me back in time. To a point two years after a well-remunerated pundit had declared that "if you don't follow the defense business closely, then you can be excused for believing that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is in trouble", followed a matter...
11
Feb
Just Don’t Call It A Flying Killer Robot
Uncrewed, reusable, weapon-carrying fast-jet aircraft have had many names since the WW2 and Vietnam-era idea was revived in the mid-1990s. Maybe 37, which is 37 more than the number of such aircraft that have been delivered to operational units. Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) is the latest. It's survived...