If the Army heeds industry's emphasis on protecting intellectual property than a dependence on proprietary technology will hamstring FVL’s ability to address evolving threats.
While this emphasis on modernization has been in place for many years, it is now being deliberately stepped up in the Pentagon’s 2023 budget for the clear purpose of implementing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s Integrated Deterrence posture.
The Pentagon needs a realistic experimentation program built in to evaluate emerging technologies like Joint All Domain Command and Control [JADC2] and hypersonic or directed energy weapons, a top Navy scientist said Wednesday. Experimentation must be viewed as a necessary asset in mission planning and operations. Live, virtual and constructive experiments using existing platforms and […]