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Month: July 2020

Will the military aviation industry get nationalized? A battle for the industry’s future

July 16, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

“If our industrial base collapses any more, we’ll have to nationalize advanced aviation and maybe other parts of the Air Force that currently are competitive,” […]

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The Pentagon’s first comptroller was against merging the armed forces

July 15, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In 1972, Jerry Hess interviews Wilfred McNeil, the Department of Defense’s Comptroller for the first five Secretaries of Defense: HESS: What were your views on […]

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Palantir’s Stephen Cohen on AI and big data in the 21st century

July 14, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Potentially in quantum computing there are some answers to why classical computational algorithms might not be able to get certain human reasoning tasks done. Nonetheless, […]

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Trump releases info about hypersonic AGM-183A: Perhaps Mach 14, 1K range, and 14 inch CEP?

July 13, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In a White House news-press, [Trump] said he had spoken with the Joint Chiefs a few days before then about the “super duper” missile that […]

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Acquisition headlines

July 12, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

US Air Force ready to test tech for new battle management system. “The vision involves networking every shooter and sensor to a cloud computing environment […]

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How McNamara’s top-down structure was flipped, but equally insidious forces prevailed

July 11, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Taking the place of the Draft Presidential Memorandum was a new document called the Program Objective Memorandum (POM), through which the services could outline their […]

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Congress has a bold vision for Navy subsystem prototyping, but here’s what they’re missing

July 10, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

As the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has documented, lead ships in new classes of naval vessels routinely fail to meet expectations… It was not always this […]

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Is GPS a legacy platform that requires disruption?

July 9, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Commanders in the field have increasingly been slapping DoD with “joint urgent operational needs” for equipment that does not need to rely on GPS because […]

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How will Air Force and Space Force labs and test centers be organized?

July 8, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

David Deptula: Which parts of the Air Force acquisition organization do you see migrating to the Space Force? And are there any organizations that will […]

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What’s the best way to control spiraling weapons sustainment costs?

July 7, 2020 Eric Lofgren 2

A draft version of the National Defense Authorization Act the House Armed Services Committee will begin debating this week includes a provision requiring DoD to develop a […]

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How AFWERX transitions tech with Chris Benson, Steve Lauver, and Jason Rathje

July 6, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Three of the co-founders of the Air Force Ventures program at AFWERX joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss how they transition startups […]

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Acquisition headlines

July 5, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

ABMS moves ahead with second round of contract awards. Adds 18 companies to 28 previously selected to compete for ABMS work. That sounds like a […]

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Neglect of small business at the start of WWII

July 4, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

… little actual headway was made in 1940, primarily because the Army and Navy field procurement officers had been sharply reminded, in the course of […]

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More wish list items for space systems acquisition

July 3, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In contrast to tanks, ships, and planes, a disproportionate share of the life-cycle cost in space acquisition is in the research and development phase. Indeed, […]

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Submarine production, union contracts, and lock-in effects

July 2, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Mr McMahon (staffer): Because of the multiyear contract that the Virginia-class is under, if the second FY21 boat is not authorized and appropriated, the shipbuilders […]

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