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Month: August 2020

What Palantir and Lockheed’s financials say about the GovCon business

August 31, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s a good piece from Simply Statistics on Palantir: At first glance it seems their doing pretty well. Their gross profit (Revenue – Cost of […]

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August 30, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Leaders at Navy’s innovation ‘super-connector’ give advice for getting in the door. A few people have been confused on this point: NavalX does not buy […]

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Upcoming Army xTechSearch event

August 29, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

On the main stage, 10 team finalists from the xTechSearch 3 Accelerator competition will pitch and demo their technology solutions aimed at tackling the Army’s […]

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Reconsidering the DoD’s Soviet-style budget process

August 28, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

The Pentagon and North Korea are the last bastions of Soviet-style central planning left in the world. The Planning, Programming, and Budget System (PPBS) system […]

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Commercial solutions openings as a path to continuous competition

August 27, 2020 Eric Lofgren 10

A CSO-type general solicitation advances two core concepts: modular contracting and merit-based decision-making… Modular contracting is a proven strategy. IT projects that follow the strategy […]

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An indictment of government acquisition

August 26, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

NASA is working on the constellation program, they’re trying to go back to the moon for example and eventually to Mars. Then you have SpaceX, […]

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What the DoD doesn’t understand about markets

August 25, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Most people in economics think of economics as being a largely positive, scientific approach to studying. More than that: It is a set of questions […]

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Podcast: JADC2 and decision-centric warfare with Dan Patt and Bryan Clark

August 24, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

I was pleased to have Bryan Clark and Dan Patt join me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss a range of important subjects including […]

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Acquisition headlines

August 23, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Air Force moving project maven into advanced battle management system portfolio. That’s nearly doubling ABMS’s FY21 request, with Maven’s Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team at […]

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DoD should control R&D programs incrementally, not through lifecycle controls predicted up-front

August 22, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Policy is not made once and for all; it is made and re-made endlessly. Policy-making is a process of successive approximation to some desired objectives […]

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Design thinking and how to think about agility

August 21, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Agility is like healthy. Every time you hear that in your head, think someone is trying to understand how to become healthy. Scrum is like […]

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Is AI/ML data too unique for the DoD to stick into one centralized data repository?

August 20, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Not only is the data dirty, but it’s unique. The satellite derived data that NGA [National Geo-spatial Intelligence Agency] is using is, while it might […]

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More on the slowdown in science and technology

August 19, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

The number of transistors you can pack onto a chip has been roughly doubling every two years, and that was coined as Moore’s Law and […]

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Special event: The Next Frontier of Acquisition Reform

August 18, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Please join me in a special Mason GovCon webinar event on the future of budget reform on Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 2:30pm EST. Why the […]

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Podcast: OTAs and everything else with Ben McMartin

August 17, 2020 Eric Lofgren 2

In a special webinar event of the Acquisition Talk podcast, I spoke with the excellent Ben McMartin. He is a managing partner at the Public […]

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