
The Air Force decided to cancel a major defensive upgrade to its B-2 stealth bomber in the fiscal year 2021 budget request after realizing that new software code wouldn’t work with the legacy embedded computer systems on the aircraft without further delays and costs, a senior Air Force official told a House panel last week. The lesson learned with the Defensive Management System Modernization (DMS-M) program is that “if we want to do a major modernization in the future and…