The Joint Biological Tactical Detection System is ready to go into production. It’s been 20 years in the making, but the Army is about to get its first lightweight, low-cost, man-portable defense ...

Experts arguing to scrap the JCIDS process say the military needs more rapid acquisition processes, such as the model that helped develop Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, shown here, during ...

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 ...

A DIME FOR A CAROUSEL RIDE - DEVCOM CBC electrical engineer James Severtsen demonstrates how the DIMES are inserted into the carousel attachment on the FLIR Skyraider quadcopter. The quadcopter can ...

Awarded in December 2022, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) establishes a new direction for the Defense Department’s enterprise-scale cloud development. Now operational, the JWCC will ...

If U.S. European Command — where I am the chief of staff — had to fight today, we would risk failing to support our commander in making decisions at the speed and quality necessary to succeed in ...

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 ...

The Pentagon's requirements process for weapons development is a bureaucratic morass that stymies true innovation and must be scrapped entirely and replaced, two prominent defense experts argue in a ...