“We are going to invert that approach and take a clean sheet of paper and write the absolute bare minimum to be compliant in 5000.02, and encourage program managers and contracting officers to add to that as they need for specific programs.” A good bit of that article on 6 initiatives in 2019 was on the 5000.02. I’ll dive into that in a later post.
“… when schedule slippage is recognized, the natural (and traditional) response is to add manpower. Like dousing a fire with gasoline, this makes matters worse, much worse. More fire requires more gasoline, and thus begins a regenerative cycle which ends in disaster.“
““We want people to get out and use these authorities, not to be scared of them and be very creatively compliant,” Lord said during a speech Thursday at the Naval Submarine League Symposium in Arlington, Virginia.” That was from the Federal News Network. Its interesting that interim authorities like OTAs and Middle-Tier are given, and leaders want them to be used creatively without being scared of them. And yet, with a criminalized acquisition system, the bias will always be toward conservativism.
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John Gibson II, the DoD’s first ever Chief Mgmt Officer, answers questions. He has nine priority areas. It always seems like these initiatives attack a broad front shallowly.
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