{"id":17927,"date":"2018-03-07T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T14:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/03\/07\/pentagons-top-tech-official-take-more-risks-in-space\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T21:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:40:19","slug":"pentagons-top-tech-official-take-more-risks-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/space\/2018\/03\/07\/pentagons-top-tech-official-take-more-risks-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon\u2019s top tech official: Take more risks in space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2013 The Department of Defense needs to accept a greater amount of risk in its military space systems, the Pentagon\u2019s top technology officer said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Griffin, a former NASA administrator now serving as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2018\/03\/06\/hypersonics-highest-technical-priority-for-pentagon-rd-head\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">undersecretary of defense for research and engineering<\/a>, said that while failures are not ideal, the department cannot insist on the high-cost, long-timeline requirements for space programs that it traditionally has required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve trapped ourselves in a vicious cycle of spending a lot of money on mission assurance, which makes the assets incredibly expensive, which means the launch vehicles that support them need to have near certainty,\u201d Griffin said. \u201cWhat we should be thinking about is the overall cost of the architecture we deploy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the last several years, the Pentagon has been trying to shift from its traditional space setup \u2013 relying on extremely expensive, uniquely designed, high-end systems \u2013 into a disaggregated architecture featuring an increased number of smaller, and ostensibly, less expensive systems. The move has been driven by fears that a single satellite make an easy target for a potential adversary looking to take out America\u2019s capabilities, whereas a disaggregated system would be more survivable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But despite vocal support from Pentagon officials for such a shift, the slow speed of both the Pentagon bureaucracy and the long lead times associated with existing space system designs mean that change has yet to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Griffin hopes to change that, moving more towards a \u201cproduction mindset,\u201d one where the ability to churn out small satellites associated with regular, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/space-symposium\/2017\/04\/06\/air-force-space-command-head-open-to-reusable-rockets\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">low-cost space launch<\/a> that is now available. But in doing so, he acknowledged that more risk need to be accepted by a department that famously insists on what is known as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/space\/2017\/10\/27\/national-security-warrants-focus-on-space-but-not-a-separate-space-corps-commentary\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">assured launch<\/a>\u201d and shuts down launch providers for weeks or months if a mishap happens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The theory that the Pentagon cannot afford to insist on a perfect solution undergirds Griffin\u2019s broader view of defense acquisition, ten days after he took office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSomehow we have evolved to believing, as a nation, as a culture\u2026 that we had to be 100 percent right, or 99 percent right, that everything had to be perfect before we could proceed,\u201d Griffin said during his speech at the McAleese\/Credit Suisse conference Tuesday. \u201cThe consequences of not being perfect where what, that someone breaks some hardware? 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