Acquisition headlines (1/24 – 1/30/2022)
Federal Trade Commission blocks Lockheed Martin’s acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne. (Space News) FTC statement: “Lockheed will use its control of Aerojet to harm rival defense […]
Federal Trade Commission blocks Lockheed Martin’s acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne. (Space News) FTC statement: “Lockheed will use its control of Aerojet to harm rival defense […]
First, the overhead costs of manning the acquisition room are some place between 10 and 50 times what it would cost to proceed on a […]
Katherine Boyle joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to dive deeper into her stark warning on DoD’s relationship with the tech community. “After five […]
Sponsors utilizing the software acquisition pathway per reference III for software only will submit a Software-ICD (SW-ICD) to the Joint Staff Gatekeeper to assess for […]
That was from a congressional hearing in July 1961.* I’m actually somewhat surprised that the Air Force performed upwards of 20 percent of their RDT&E […]
Kendall warns against imitating Chinese hypersonic weapon efforts. (Defense Daily) ““We don’t have the same target set that they’re worried about so we have to […]
Jerry McGinn and I provide three recommendations for the congressional commission on PPBE reform in a Defense News article: Be bold in vision. The DoD’s industrial-age […]
Here’s RADM Mark Montgomery (ret.) talking with Vago Muradian about the new Constellation-class frigate: Historically, the Navy either changed the HME — the hull, mechanical, […]
MCNEIL: … the budget system got pretty complicated under [Robert] McNamara. It took them years to wake up to the fact that he was not […]
It’s been an incredible year for #afventures and #afwerx companies. While we’re still finishing our end of year reports, I’m thrilled to be able to share a preview of […]
US Air Force invests $60M in the R&D of the ‘world’s fastest supersonic airliner.’ (3D printing industry) “Awarded via the USAF’s AFWERX innovation arm, the ‘STRATFI’ funding […]
Today the Navy has aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants, aircraft, and sensors under the sea and in space. Our plan to counter to China can […]
The archaic defense budget process based on five-year plans, long decision making and excessive time to revenue keeps the most innovative companies from ever wanting […]
I drop you into an exchange between Senator Scoop Jackson and Alain Enthoven, ASD Systems Analysis and one of McNamara’s ‘whiz kids,’ in a 1967 […]
The CBO has a nice, short paper on aircraft availability rates in the Air Force and Navy. Check out the charts. There’s been a general […]
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