Acquisition headlines

Every Part of the Supply Chain Can Be Attacked

It looks like the Navy got its Super Hornets and EA-18Gs up to 80 percent readiness. Naval Aviation Achieves SECDEF Readiness Target, Shifts Focus to Readiness Sustainment.

How to Develop a Basis of Estimate for Government Contracts

“When designing its next-generation, multi-domain command-and-control vision, the Air Force is looking to a perhaps unlikely example: Uber.” See link here.

Nice overview of acquisition reform status: USD(A&S) Ellen Lord On Acquisition Reforms and Innovation.

DOD Issues Final Rule Restricting Use of LPTA Source Selection Procedures

Views on Kessel Run: “Successfully demonstrating continuous delivery is basically the holy grail of software development, and Kessel Run did it. The FCW article is correct — this is a really big deal. This success also sets high expectations for future performance, so Kessel Run is almost certainly perched on the Peak of Inflated Expectations right now.”

Views on bombers: “If an aircraft like the B-1 was taxed so hard due to high demand, the appropriate lesson is that the nation needs more bombers, not less.”

“From weaponized hobby drones, to artillery shells, to low-flying fighters and cruise missiles, U.S. ground forces are alarmingly vulnerable.” Link is here.

Agile worries grow: As Agile is increasingly seen as the standard way to manage work in the 21st Century, we are seeing more and more “Agile in name only” or “fake Agile”.

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