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Month: September 2019

AFWERX first of its kind increase in SBIR funding

September 30, 2019 Eric Lofgren 2

Companies may apply to increase the Phase II funding for a maximum period of 48 months, with a minimum funding increase amount of $3,000,000. There […]

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Acquisition headlines

September 29, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

“George Mason University Center for Government Contracting and Defense Acquisition University are co-hosting a first-time conference geared toward the government contracting community.” I’ll be there, […]

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US Army R&D endorses mission command

September 28, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

I think frankly, what they thought was [we had] an industrial age model that existed and as we move into the 21st century and what […]

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Feynman finds out technologists need feedback from the military

September 27, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Here is a good part from Richard Feynman’s excellent book, Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! (pp. 120) which nicely demonstrates the useful interaction between technology-push […]

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How OSD, feeding on its growth, became a separate empire

September 26, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

I mention this point at the outset because, from shattered illusions that mere passage of a unification act would produce a military utopia, there has […]

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William Roper is saying all the right things on defense innovation

September 25, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

What we really have to do in acquisition is shift the culture that is solely focused  on the balance sheet — on cost — and […]

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Stop funding new R&D under existing major programs, fund a prototype program

September 24, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s a good point from Craig Hooper over at Forbes: Given that research and development hard to fund these days, Navy innovation aboard ships and […]

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Why aren’t investors interested in defense?

September 23, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

II think many of the policies that we have around small business have been focused on what I’d consider to be social justice more than […]

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Acquisition headlines

September 22, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

U.S. Navy sponsoring development of a cloud-computing environment. Not clear why this cloud work should be using significant small business (SBIR) funding. A cloud infrastructure […]

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Is the DOD too aggressive in dodging the acquisition process?

September 21, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

A program has to achieve 40 milestone requirements just to pass Milestone A into the second major phase of a program, the Technology Maturation & Risk Reduction […]

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The SDA accountable, but not responsible, for space architecture

September 20, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

In August, 2018, the department put forward this report to Congress[that] … laid out these eight capabilities. … The Space Development Agency was set up […]

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Real costs are defensive effort, risk aversion, lack of initiative, and failed partnernships

September 19, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Opportunism, the pursuit of self-interest by means of duplicity and guile, is a key concept in neo-institutional economics (Williamson, 1967, 1985). It manifests itself in […]

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Three factors of escalating defense costs, and some figures to go with it

September 18, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

The cost of maintaining our armed forces at adequate strength to deter war has steadily increased in recent years. This upward trend is likely to […]

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Simulators, software, and complexity in weapons platforms

September 17, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Replicating platforms accurately in simulations remains one of the biggest challenges for the Army, according to a service official.   “As many of you know, […]

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Cost escalation for defense labor and material — can it continue to grow so fast?

September 16, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

When we talk about procurement or support costs in the 2040 decade, obviously that’s a long way from now. Any sort of projection of a […]

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