{"id":49899,"date":"2024-03-11T19:06:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T19:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/03\/11\/tech-maturing-too-fast-for-multiyear-drone-buys-armys-bush-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:42:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:42:44","slug":"tech-maturing-too-fast-for-multiyear-drone-buys-armys-bush-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/smr\/federal-budget\/2024\/03\/11\/tech-maturing-too-fast-for-multiyear-drone-buys-armys-bush-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech maturing too fast for multiyear drone buys, Army\u2019s Bush says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unmanned technologies are maturing at such a rapid rate that multiyear purchases would likely leave the U.S. Army with outdated devices, according to a service acquisition official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Militaries the world over are increasingly developing and deploying drones and robotics, with the systems posing a threat on land, at sea and in the air. The growing importance of uncrewed systems has been on display for two years in Ukraine and is at the heart of the Defense Department\u2019s clandestine Replicator initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In discussions about the Army\u2019s fiscal 2025 spending plans, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology Doug Bush said a multiyear procurement for something that changes as fast as unmanned aerial systems \u201cmay not be appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s also a lot of new entrants in that space,\u201d Bush said in a briefing at the Pentagon. \u201cCommitting to one, as good as that company might be, would perhaps foreclose other options because there\u2019s so much innovation with new companies in that space<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t