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Air Force Chief Scientist Promoting Rapid Prototyping To Combat ‘Requirements Churn’

Air Force Chief Scientist Promoting Rapid Prototyping To Combat ‘Requirements Churn’
The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force.

The Air Force’s chief scientist is pursuing rapid prototyping as a means to combat costly “requirements churn.” Mica Endsley said Wednesday the Defense Department, over the years, hasn’t done a good job defining requirements, which has cost the services money and delayed programs. Endsley said the idea of early and rapid prototyping allows DoD to make changes and work out kinks before physically building a weapons system. “That’s the much more cost-effective way to do it and it also creates…

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