Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maj. Gen. Phil Brooks, Fires Center of Excellence commander, center, observes students disable drones at the Joint Counter-small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts arguing to scrap the JCIDS process say the military needs more rapid acquisition processes, such as the model that helped ...

A wave of efficiency talk has arrived in Washington, epitomized by the Department of Government Efficiency now roaming the halls of the Pentagon. But as policymakers examine how government actually ...

The Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) has evolved from an aspiring solution to meet joint warfighting needs into a bureaucratic impediment that actively impedes military ...

Every new administration deplores the defense acquisition system it inherits and pledges to reform it aggressively. And every administration, while trying valiantly, fails. Instead, the system becomes ...

“Reaping the Benefits” (AW&ST Aug 15, p. 48) underscores—via the example of the Airborne Infrared system (ABIR)—why the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) needs to be back under the auspices of the ...

After years of complaints that it slowed innovation and buried programs in red tape, the Pentagon has officially scrapped the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS). In an ...

The new Joint Capabilities Integration Development System (JCIDS) regulation still is a work in progress, but mostly is successful in improving the defense acquisition process, according to Col. Hugo ...

A great disconnect persists between the acquisition work force and maturation of the capability requirements development work force. Bridging the gap would help rein in the spiraling-out-of-control ...