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…
