They should go further & own (have full license to) the designs outright for the systems they procure. There's so much talk about Modular Open Systems Architec

They should go further & own (have full license to) the designs outright for the systems they procure. There's so much talk about Modular Open Systems Architecture, because everyone agrees the current system is broken & doesn't allow iteration & exploration of systems. But it's so unclear technically what that means, how it happens. Maybe maybe things are a tiny bit better than they were but it's so hard to know, and it feels so likely to be lipservice, too hard to do & too little genuine desire to make it happen. Amazing lcs report, https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-l...