What led to the decline of the Army’s arsenal system?
Perhaps the most significant causal event that signaled the demise of the arsenal system was the gradual centralization of decision-making authority within the Office of […]
Month: July 2021
DoD experiments with bots to automate price reasonableness
As part of a pilot project now underway, the service [US Army] is experimenting with bots that can scrape through the bills of materials (BOMs) […]
GMU Playbook: Make market research a core and continuous organizational capability
In this week’s blog post on our acquisition playbook study, we discuss a recommendation to make market research a core and continuous organizational capability. No […]
Podcast: What’s the price of an AI/ML product?
As firms are finding out, the unit economics of AI/ML is not exactly like software. It requires more manual manipulation of data than one might […]
Acquisition headlines (6/28 – 7/4/2021)
Faster weapon buys: try evolutionary innovation. (Breaking Defense) Elaine McCusker and Dan Patt recommend: “First, it needs stable lines of funding that can accommodate the […]
Mac Thornberry backs NSCAI recommendations on budget reform
Mac Thornberry is on point in his article, How Congress must reform its budget process to compete against China in AI: The Biden administration’s 2022 budget proposal includes […]
Lessons from scientific management of US Army arsenals
It is possible to argue that theses savings in material costs were a large extent mere matters of bookkeeping. They were reductions only in a […]