The tightening budget environment poses challenges to establishing long-term business plans for procuring and upgrading weapons systems, but doing so is nevertheless increasingly important in the development of open systems, according to a senior Pentagon official. Stephen Welby, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for systems engineering, said that acquisition officials need to develop long-term plans in designing business models for the lifecycle of open architecture systems to identify which components need to be open, where key upgrades will needed…
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