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Army, Navy, USAF Brass: Industry Must Cooperate To Keep Incremental Gear Upgrades Affordable

Army, Navy, USAF Brass: Industry Must Cooperate To Keep Incremental Gear Upgrades Affordable
Moderated by Lockheed Martin's Jim Sheridan, general and flag officers from the Marine Corps, Air Force, Army and Navy address the 2016 Defense Daily Open Architecture Summit.

The military wants weapons and equipment with modular, open-systems architectures (MOSA) that allow rapid, regular upgrades but need assurance from industry that each incremental upgrade will not come with its own massive bill.General and flag officers from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force agree that open architectures are critical to the rapid integration of future technologies but the advantage is lessened if industry isn’t on board with making incremental, evolutionary improvements affordable.“Every time a standard changes in some…

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