{"id":195279,"date":"2008-07-19T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/19\/finally-found-a-dod-project-thats-on-budget-and-on-schedule\/"},"modified":"2008-07-19T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T14:35:00","slug":"finally-found-a-dod-project-thats-on-budget-and-on-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/07\/19\/finally-found-a-dod-project-thats-on-budget-and-on-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally Found a DoD Project That&#8217;s  On Budget and On Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2008\/07\/16\/ah-64-on-budget-and-on-schedule\/\">AH-64 Apache Block III Upgrade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is actually a non trivial upgrade:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Block 3 improvements are pretty fundamental, requiring a new airframe, more than 1 million lines of code, a new transmission system, longer range and automatic recognition radar, UAV connectivity, the ability to communicate with a much wider range of platforms (but not stealthy aircraft), software that will help the air crew make rapid decisions and a host maintenance management systems that are expected to reduce the average flight hours lost to fixing and maintaining things by 30 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it appears that it&#8217;s working because of the basics, keeping up good lines of communications and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">avoiding requirement creep<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>That last one seems to be the biggie in defense procurement fiascoes, which is why the entire <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/spiral-development-as-latest.html\">spiral development model<\/a> is problematic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the AH-64 Apache Block III Upgrade. This is actually a non trivial upgrade: The Block 3 improvements are pretty fundamental, requiring a new airframe, more than 1 million lines of code, a new transmission system, longer range and automatic recognition radar, UAV connectivity, the ability to communicate with a much wider range of platforms &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-helicopters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}