Acquisition headlines (11/1 – 11/7/2021)
Navy task completes first unmanned at sea integration exercise. (Aerotech News) “During the two-day training exercise, Task Force 59 integrated and evaluated new MANTAS T-12 […]
Month: November 2021
How can the SBIR/STTR process be more welcoming to startups?
Here are some good recommendations from USAF contracting officers Steven Groenheim and John Diekel, Restructuring the SBIR/STTR process: First, we should consider overhauling the application […]
The damage to R&D caused by bureaucrats planning the creative process
Here’s a letter from Bill McClean, chief at Navy’s China Lake and led the Sidewinder development, to the deputy chief of Naval Operations: We find […]
There are 50 single-points of failure in the microchip supply chain — Challenges of industrial policy
I am a fan of the way interdependency makes war between great powers illogical — because the supply chain for microchips are many, many countries […]
We’re never going to beat China with that kind of oversight!
Here is a Air Force head of contracting authority Maj. Gen. Cameron Holt discussing an interesting new proposal: [Line of Effort] 3 is called “owning […]
Acquisition headlines (10/25 – 10/31/2021)
Space Development Agency’s request for bids challenged for ‘risk’ imposed on contractors. (Space News) “Maxar believed that the terms of the Space Development Agency’s satellite […]