Pentagon Wants a Process to Field Unmanned Systems, AI Faster

Tests of Boeing’s MQ-25A Stringray prototype in St. Louis. Boeing Image

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Though the Pentagon is accelerating how it buys unmanned and artificial intelligence systems, leaders want to move faster still in acquiring what the Defense Department considers key future technology. 

Alan Shaffer, deputy under secretary of defense acquisition and sustainment, said it’s largely an “urban legend” that companies don’t want to do business with the Pentagon but conceded there’s still a great...

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