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Space Acquisition Report: Best Solution to Improve JCIDS Thus Far ‘Has Been to Avoid It Altogether’

Space Acquisition Report: Best Solution to Improve JCIDS Thus Far ‘Has Been to Avoid It Altogether’
Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman and Chief Master Sgt. of the Space Force John F. Bentivegna visit the Maui Space Surveillance Complex in Maui, Hawaii on Sept. 19 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

The Defense Business Board, in a space acquisition report last month, recommends significant improvements to the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) in order to help scale up the use of commercial space technologies. JCIDS "is time-consuming, cumbersome, and limits opportunities to leverage commercial innovation," the study said. "A follow-on DBB study should look at options to reform the JCIDS requirements process." Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld created JCIDS in 2003 to inject jointness into the requirements process up…

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