Tag Archives: Office of the Secretary of Defense

The 5th Generation Aerial Target (5GAT) drone completed engine run testing on Jan. 10th with Sierra Technical Services (STS), the company announced on Tuesday. The Demonstrator First Flight is scheduled for later this year. 

Jim Garrettson, chief executive officer of Executive Mosaic, presented Chris Pehrson, vice president of Strategic Development for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, with the Chairman’s Award for completing his second year as chairman of the Unmanned Systems Group for Executive Mosaic’s 4x24 program.

Mary Miller, assistant secretary for research and engineering at the Defense Department, has said the department continues to face various technical challenges in developing directed energy weapons for combat, National Defense Magazine reported Friday.

The U.S. Army is mulling plans to allocate $31.6B in fiscal 2020 funds to help the service branch update its combat vehicle and helicopter fleets, Bloomberg Government reported Monday.

The Defense Department has published a roadmap that aims to guide military services and the DoD to integrate their goals for autonomous systems. The roadmap presented interoperability, autonomy, network security and human-machine collaboration as the four themes that can serve as the foundational areas of interest for accelerating the use of unmanned systems, according to a report obtained by USNI News on Thursday.

The U.S. Transportation Command and the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation organization have partnered to determine the number of airlift, tanker and sealift platforms needed to support combatant command missions. The Mobility Capabilities and Requirements Study, mandated by the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2018, aims to identify …

President Donald Trump has nominated James Anderson, a former intelligence officer at the U.S. Marine Corps, to be assistant defense secretary for strategy, plans and capabilities. Anderson serves as vice president of academic affairs at Marine Corps University and oversees MCU’s academic and professional military education programs in that capacity, the …

President Donald Trump intends to nominate William Roper, director of the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office, as assistant secretary for acquisition at the U.S. Air Force. Trump announced the planned nomination in a White House release posted Wednesday. Roper assumed his current role in August 2012 after he previously served as …

The Government Accountability Office has urged the Defense Department to re-evaluate the roles, responsibilities, authorities and organizational placement of three new leadership positions that DoD created to help optimize the management of service contracts. DoD issued a department-wide instruction in January 2016 to appoint functional domain experts (FDE), component level leads (CLL) and senior …

The Defense Department has moved to form a strategy that would define objectives to support collaboration and integration across DoD, as part of the requirements under section 911 of the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. The Government Accountability Office said Friday DoD expects to complete the development of its organizational …