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Month: November 2020

The Air Force ‘Internet of Things’ program gets reorganized

November 30, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

According to a memo sent from Roper to the Air Force’s acquisition workforce Tuesday, the chief architect will remain responsible for codifying ABMS [Advanced Battle […]

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Acquisition headlines

November 29, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

GAO: Aircraft Mission Capable Rates Generally Did Not Meet Goals and Cost of Sustaining Selected Weapon Systems Varied Widely. “We found that of the 46 […]

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Why cost accounting does not guarantee efficiency

November 28, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

But accurate accounts will not guarantee efficiency. Even if — as is unlikely to be the case [Sourwine 1993; 1994]– the service supplier’s financial and […]

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How should government own the technical baseline?

November 27, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In 1989, Kodak contracted with IBM to outsource its IT operations, creating the IT outsourcing industry. Kodak’s IT outsourcing proved disastrous. With a 10-year, $250 […]

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Origins of weapon systems stovepiping

November 26, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Practitioners of systems analysis naturally did not aspire to such comprehensiveness, but, as will be demonstrated, the technique of systems analysis does imply it. Since […]

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A meta analysis of industrial mobilization

November 25, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Francis: You’re inference at the end of this piece, “It’s time to make industrial mobilization cool again,” infers that there was a time when it […]

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The role of blockchain in military cybersecurity

November 24, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

On a great new podcast, Commercial Innovation for Defense, Mark Goode asks blockchain entrepreneur Michael Lewellen about the military’s work on bringing together a common […]

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Tech competition in China and the United States with Michael Brown

November 23, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In this special crossover episode with ChinaTalk podcast host Jordan Schneider, we interview director of the Defense Innovation Unit Michael Brown. We touch on a […]

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Acquisition headlines

November 22, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

DoD has promising tech. Now it’s time to scale it up, officials say. “Michèle Flournoy, widely believed to be President-elect Joe Biden’s top pick to […]

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The days when 3-5 years for fighter aircraft development was too long

November 21, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In the judgment of the committee, the services unnecessarily complicated those relationships with “meticulous supervision” exercised through restrictive procedures that badly needed simplifying. In addition […]

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Make industrial mobilization cool again — or is it for the first time?

November 20, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

The tradition of the Department of Defense is to define a weapon system end item, then fund that end item and the supplier base through […]

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How the SDA’s space architecture comes together

November 19, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In order to do missile tracking for the next generation missile threats — hypersonic glide vehicles, hypersonic cruise missiles — we need to do two […]

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Air Force top priorities reflect a move away from stovepiped weapons

November 18, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Back in June 2020, Air Force chief Charles Brown said his top priority was Joint All-Domain Command and Control. In November, Brown updated that slightly. […]

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Roper on opportunity- vs. requirements-based contracting

November 17, 2020 Eric Lofgren 1

Here’s Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper making a very nice distinction between a “requirements” and an “opportunity” approach to defense programs. At the Strategic […]

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Defense budgets under a Biden administration

November 16, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Republicans have historically supported a large defense budget, and most Democrats showed earlier this year that they don’t support deep cuts either when the party’s […]

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