Acquisition headlines (1/3 – 1/9/2022)
Navy, Air Force flight stats have been dive bombing for two decades: CBO. (Breaking Defense) ““In general, fleetwide availability rates have declined for both services, […]
Month: January 2022
Is a Russian invasion of Ukraine imminent? And when will acquisition get serious?
Here is Dmitri Alpervitch, co-founder of the largest cybersecurity firm in the world Crowd Strike, in a viral twitter thread: There are numerous signals that […]
Podcast: Other Transactions Authorities
In this episode of Acquisition Talk, we listen in on a recent event on Other Transactions Authority hosted by George Mason University’s Center for Government […]
What happened to the guts and vision of Americans to build great things?
Here is Steve Levine on the Realignment podcast discussing the US/China Great EV battery war: The 2020s are lost. Even if a decision is made […]
First DoD Comptroller slams naive reformers who invented PPBS
Here’s DoD’s third Comptroller Charles Hitch testifying to Congress about the need for the new management system he was implementing in DoD: the Planning, Programming, […]
Acquisition headlines (12/27/2021 – 1/2/2022)
National Defense Authorization Act provisions sparked support and skepticism from several experts. (Nextgov) “Several of the officials pointed to the noteworthiness of section 1004 in […]