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Month: April 2022

Congress needs introspection for PPBE Reform to work, for DoD to innovate at scale

April 8, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

There are several ways in which Congress is a major impediment to an improved defense investment process. First, congressional committees are loath to shed their ability […]

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Can defense acquisition become highly reliable? Yes! Just add redundancy.

April 7, 2022 Eric Lofgren 1

Is it possible to take a set of individually unreliable units and form them into a system “with any arbitrarily high reliability”? Can we, in […]

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Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg on moving fast in product development

April 6, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s Mark Zuckerberg talking to Tim Ferriss about product development on virtual reality gear: … being able to just work on a project that’s a […]

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There’s no time for a top-down approach to JADC2

April 5, 2022 Eric Lofgren 1

The Department of Defense’s new Joint All-Domain Command and Control strategy is short on details and long on the kind of vague top-down direction that exemplifies […]

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Acquisition headlines 3/28 – 4/3/2022

April 4, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Navy’s shipbuilding request may be violation of law, Inhofe warns. (Breaking Defense) Inhofe’s tweet: “The @USNavy says we need at least 355 battle force ships […]

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DoD exported PPBE to Eastern Europe after the Cold War. Here’s how it went.

April 1, 2022 Eric Lofgren 3

he budgeting method that has come to be known as the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) – or Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) […]

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