12 posts tagged procurement from Defense & Donuts.
The KC-46 Pegasus costs $50 billion to build and still can't reliably watch its own refueling boom. Here's why that's a bigger problem than it sounds.
K. BrennanThe Army spent $1 billion and 15 years developing the JLTV to replace the Humvee, then quietly kept buying Humvees anyway. Here's why.
K. BrennanThe Army's Short-Range Air Defense missile program keeps missing its window as threats evolve faster than its targeting logic can keep up.
K. BrennanThe Army's Mobile Protected Firepower vehicle is expensive, behind schedule, and solving a problem that the units getting it aren't sure they have.
K. BrennanThe Navy spent $5 billion building the Zumwalt destroyer around a revolutionary gun system, then canceled the ammo because each round cost $1 million.
K. BrennanThe Army's OMFV program promises a tank that drives itself or with a crew. After years of restarts, it still can't commit to either.
K. BrennanThe Army's Robotic Combat Vehicle program has spent years and billions trying to build an unmanned ground platform that can do both reconnaissance and direct fire. It still can't do either reliably.
K. BrennanThe Navy's FFG-62 Constellation-class frigate is years behind schedule and billions over budget. Here's why the ship keeps redesigning itself.
K. BrennanThe Army's PrSM hypersonic successor promised 500km range and rapid fielding. Years later, it's hitting 400km and slipping schedules.
K. BrennanThe USS Gerald R. Ford's electromagnetic catapults promised revolution but delivered headaches and billion-dollar delays.
K. BrennanA look at the absurd procurement pipeline that turns simple purchases into Pentagon-grade paperwork nightmares.
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