
The Pentagon’s number two civilian official shed some light last Friday on the department’s upcoming fiscal year 2022 budget request noting it will place a focus on developing software and subsystems based on next-generation technologies to power future platforms, as well as creating a "sustainable approach" to legacy system divestitures. “Platforms will always matter, but it’s the software...it’s the munitions. It’s those pieces that make such a critical difference in our capability sets, and that’s a different funding picture, I…