The most relevant systems-engineering articles and analysis, kept current.
The 2026 Weapon Systems Annual Assessment found that seven of eight Middle-Tier Acquisition programs still carry unresolved immature technologies, and that the overall average delivery timeframe has grown to more than twelve years — prompting a recommendation that DoD policy require mature technologies before development begins.
Read the breakdownThe April 2026 second edition cancels and replaces ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207:2017, expanding the common process framework governing software acquisition, development, operation, maintenance, and disposal while remaining neutral to life cycle model and methodology.
The Munich startup confirmed its aerodynamic layout, structural design, and electric propulsion configuration passed PDR on June 11 — locking in the architecture before CDR and a targeted 2028 first flight.
The five-year Digital Engineering and Enterprise Decision Support award makes KBR the sole provider of MBSE, modeling-and-simulation, and analytics-driven acquisition support at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Warfare Directorate.
