Robert Dudney, Editor in Chief of Air Force Magazine, comments on the “Real B-2 Acquisition Mistakes” and the lessons one should apply when thinking about the acquisition of the next-generation bomber.
A key problem to a person who has been a career acquisition professional is simply the future of the acquisition work force and the challenges facing the Administration as they seek to re-set that work force. When I look at the future, I have to go back to the past...
It has gotten more difficult for university researchers to conduct high-risk research in the United States. (...) The average age of a researcher receiving his or her first grant from the National Institutes of Health rose to 42.6 in 2007. This is not good for young university researchers ...
Italy is all about Slow Aerospace. Which is a good thing. I think. Most of the aero world, particularly the Anglo-US aero world, is focused on cost savings, return on investment, and industry rationalization. Call it Fast Aerospace...
The Cognac-Châteaubernard French Air Force base was at first a military airfield created in 1938 (...). Besides its historic legacy, what makes BA709 unusual though is the integration in the past three years of a customized EADS subsidiary, called ECATS for “EADS Cognac Aviation Services”...
In a recent Wall Street Journal piece on the new Chrysler and its struggle to build new cars, the authors underscored a core challenge facing the new Chrysler management. (...) They just don’t have the suppliers lined up...
Ed Timperlake comments on Air Power Australia Assessments of AESA Radar Competitions (...): "Two mutually supporting papers published in Air Power Australia one by WGCDR Chris Mills and the other by Dr Carlo Kopp perfectly capture the action/reaction dynamic cycle of fighter aircraft design features."
Nine NATO Allies have just signed a declaration of intent to contribute to the Czech-lead initiative to develop a multi-national transport helicopter programme for NATO...
