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Month: January 2022

Acquisition headlines (1/24 – 1/30/2022)

January 31, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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Does documentation eat up 50% of DoD acquisition dollars?

January 28, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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Podcast: DoD, Silicon Valley, and American Dynamism with Katherine Boyle

January 27, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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Software Acquisition Pathway meets a requirements roadblock from the Joint Staff

January 26, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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Here’s how much in-house R&D the military services did in the 1960s

January 25, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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Acquisition headlines (1/17 – 1/23/2022)

January 24, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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Three steps to help defense innovation break free from its shackles

January 21, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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FFG-62, DDG(X), and the future of surface combatants

January 20, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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, […]

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You can’t make decisions based on 40,000 pages of paper, McNamara was wrong

January 19, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

MCNEIL: … the budget system got pretty complicated under [Robert] McNamara. It took them years to wake up to the fact that he was not […]

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AFWERX companies starting to transition, but jury’s still out scaling transformation

January 18, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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Acquisition headlines (1/10 -1/16/2022)

January 17, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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How should the Navy hedge their bets if carriers prove vulnerable?

January 14, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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PPBE Reform is getting hot, here are some views

January 13, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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 […]

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DoD programs are over-analyzed, yet decisions remain superficial and shallow

January 12, 2022 Eric Lofgren 2

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 […]

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Aircraft availability and flying hours have been plummeting since 2000

January 11, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

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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