Frank Wolfe
Articles By Frank
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SpaceDIU Rolling the DICE to Align DoD Innovation Arms
While the Defense Innovation Unit Community of Entities (DICE) is a bureaucratic-sounding term of word salad–a simple DICE synonym would be “group”–a key DICE effort is aimed at the opposite […]
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Space
Tactical Nodes, No Ground Terminal, for Umbra Contract with SDA
While Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration Frank Calvelli has stressed the need to improve the ground systems segment of the U.S. Space Force’s architecture, […]
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Air ForceKnowing Lower Level Suppliers Continues As Challenge for Department of the Air Force
The Department of the Air Force faces a continued challenge of knowing all of its lower level suppliers for weapon systems, according to service acquisition chief Andrew Hunter. “We share […]
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Air ForceLeonardo’s BriteStorm May Be Future CCA Payload
The U.S. Air Force’s Collaborative Combat Aircraft program may be a fit for a five and a half pound BriteStorm stand-in jammer that Leonardo said that it is developing to […]
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Air ForceEarly Fuel System Inspection Helps Reduce B-2 PDM Time, USAF Says
U.S. Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bombers by Northrop Grumman [NOC] typically undergo a 470-day programmed depot maintenance (PDM) every nine years in Palmdale, Calif., to repair the bomber and […]
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Air ForceTarantulas and Asian Giant Hornets Subplot in RTX Settlement with DoJ
Tarantulas and Asian giant hornets in Taiwan are a subplot of a nearly $1 billion settlement RTX [RTX] reached last week with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Deterring a […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyArmy Chief Makes Case for ‘Easy, Intuitive’ Systems Needing Fewer Industry Field Service Representatives
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George on Wednesday made the case for fielding “easy, intuitive” systems that require significantly less support from original equipment manufacturer (OEM) representatives in […]
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ArmyNorthrop Grumman Highlights Its Systems’ Participation in U.S. Army EDGE Exercise
Northrop Grumman [NOC] said that the U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL)-led Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event (EDGE) in Yuma, Ariz., last month gave the company a chance to show the […]
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ArmyU.S. Army to Make Next Generation C2 a Program of Record
The U.S. Army is going to move out on a program of record for its Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) initiative–also called “C2 Next”–in the coming months, Army Undersecretary […]
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SpaceSpace Force to Highlight Decades of Contribution of Centaur III
U.S. Space Force (USSF) Col. Andrew Dermanoski, commander of Space Base Delta 3, is to host a ribbon cutting at Los Angeles AFB, Calif., on Friday for a Centaur III […]
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