What has made the next chapter of the information revolution possible is a fundamentally new approach to developing software that Silicon Valley pioneered long ago. It is a never-ending process of building, testing, and releasing the computer code that makes information technology work. This is why the apps and operating systems in our mobile devices are being updated around the clock. That simply does not happen with US military systems, where hardware has always been king and software largely an afterthought. For most military systems, the schedule for hardware updates determines the
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