Joanna Ye
The United States is facing its most complex geopolitical challenges since the Cold War, and its defense is anchored in an acquisition system ill-suited to match the pace of modern technological innovation.
Fixing it will require a “software-centric” transformation, a recent report found.
The Atlantic Council’s Commission on Software-Defined Warfare released a final report in March outlining its recommendations for the Defense Department to transform into a software-centric organization better prepared to meet the demands of “deterring and combating digital age threats.”
The department must embrace the concept of “software-defined warfare,” which will allow it to increase the speed, accuracy and scale of information sharing for “dramatically faster decision-making and maneuvering compared to U.S. adversaries,” the report said.
Whitney McNamara, nonresident senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Forward Defense program and co-author of the report, said: “We’re really thinking about enterprise approaches that allow us to scale this, make it reproducible, scalable across silos.”
Part of that includes training to encourage better understanding of commercial software development best practices from an acquisition perspective, she told reporters during a Defense Writers Group event.
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