Securing the MRAP by James Hasik pulls the curtains back on the inside story
There’s a new book, published last month, about one of the most important defense acquisition stories of the last twenty years: James M. Hasik, Securing […]
Month: October 2021
DoDIG heaps praise on use of middle-tier rapid acquisition
DoD acquisition personnel effectively leveraged the MTA [middle tier of acquisition] pathway for all 11 of the programs we reviewed to rapidly develop prototypes and […]
Transformations in defense budgeting — from BA 8 to portfolios
Congress is looking to slightly expand the new appropriation for software, BA 8, from 9 pilot programs to 12. Jared Serbu has a great article […]
Did the 5000-series lead to longer cycle time for aircraft development?
Mosaic warfare is a concept that evolved over the last 5 or 6 years, both at DARPA but also by folks like Dan Patt and […]
Acquisition headlines (9/27 – 10/3/2021)
Raytheon ends air-launched hypersonic vehicle test drought. (Aviation Week) “A demonstrator for a hypersonic missile flew faster than Mach 5 for 300 nm above 60,000 […]
The subjectivity of project planning
If I think of myself as an engineer, some of my time is debugging and thinking about what to write. But [the 10x engineer] would […]