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Speaking Sept. 9 to an audience at the Navy League’s Special Topic Breakfast, Sean Stackley, assistant secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, said, “You get the requirements right, the program has a chance. If you don’t get the requirements right, the program does not have a chance.”
Stackley was responding to a question about the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier-Launched Aerial Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) system, now going through a requirements definition phase.
For UCLASS, “much of the debate centers on what missions that aircraft is going to be called upon to perform,” he said. “Therefore, what you have to design in Day 1 that you are not going to be able to upgrade later. So when I say ‘acquisition hell’ [referring to an earlier jocular statement about UCLASS being in ‘acquisition hell’], it’s that requirements debate that’s taking place that we all agree we’ve got to get right. It will be five to 10 years before that thing is operational, and then it will be flying for another 20 to 25 years.We’ve got to get it right.”
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