Navy official: Aircraft programs should apply submarine rapid acquisition model

By Lee Hudson / June 21, 2017 at 9:30 AM
Navy aircraft programs should consider the submarine community as a model when thinking of how to execute rapid acquisition projects, according to a service official. Rear Adm. Michael Moran, program executive officer for tactical aircraft programs, told Inside the Navy the acoustic commercial-off-the-shelf rapid insertion program is a good model for the aviation community. "What the submarine community is doing is advancing the capability in a different way," he said last week after a presentation sponsored by the Association...

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