Various Consequences

Missiles and Rockets was a magazine that ran from the mid 1950's to the mid 1960's at the height of the Space Race. All the issue...

This report ( pdf ) from the National academies on reliability growth is interesting. There's a lot of good stuff on design for relia...

This paper is full of great guidance for planning a campaign of experimentation, or assessing the sufficiency of a plan that already exists...

In the BAA for the DARPA XS-1 program there is a presentation by Jess Sponable about lessons learned from previous flight demonstration pr...

RAND has a recent report out examining the historical performance of joint (i.e. multi-service) aircraft development programs. Their key...

NASA SP-2001-4525 AvWeek has a nice marketing piece for Lockheed-Martin's Mach 6 ISR/strike concept based on Blackswift that they...

An alternative title for this GAO report might be, "Defense Acquisitions: Constantly Reforming." We've been "reforming...

I found this article, Why is the Pentagon Dragging Its Feet on 3D Printing , by way of Small Wars Journal . It has some interesting informa...

I enjoy these advertising shorts. Nothing new under the sun (well, the cartoons have improved). Update: A new one from LockMart.

Senator McCain's colorful statements about the F-22 are getting lots of coverage . Another example of how flawed the Pentagon’s weapons...

In my previous post on the Dayton Aerospace Cluster , I mentioned that one of the big missing pieces is an air-framer. The DDN recently re...

This isn't about the normal death spiral of increasing unit costs driving production cuts, which increases unit costs, which drives prod...

In a previous post we developed a flow-chart for model verification and validation (V&V) activities. One thing I noted in the update o...

This Ain't New Mexico

This was a guest post over on Pielke's site. Dr Pielke's Honest Broker concepts resonate with me because of practical decision ...

Notes on Chapter 8: Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Quantification by George Em Karniadakis [ 1 ] . Karniadakis provides the motiv...

I just read an interesting article about the F-35 . It repeats the standard press-release-based storyline that every major defense contracto...

I previously did an analysis of JASSM's reliability using Octave. It's a very simple exercise using the built-in Octave function em...

Concluding Observations on Achieving Lasting Reform: I would like to offer a few thoughts about other factors that should be considered so t...