Getting the facts confused on commercial items
Foe to monopolist power Matt Stoller provides some comments on acquisition policies in Nancy Pelosi, China, and the Slow Decline of the US Military. He […]
Month: August 2022
Does DoD not actually want startups to win programs of record?
Here’s the excellent Steve Blank on the Village’s Solarpunk podcast, Rebuilding the Department of Defense. Everyone’s talking about the PPBE — Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Execution. […]
Acquisition headlines (8/1 – 8/7/2022)
US Army, not Meta, is building the metaverse. (Venture Beat) “In terms of industry progress towards the cloud-supported, scalable metaverse, no organization has come further […]
Anduril grows revenue to $150M in its first five years
There’s a new article from The Generalist Reader called Anduril: The Business of Defense. Tons of interest on the background and offerings the company has […]
Federal contractors don’t know which decade they’re in for software development — “We’ve got to change the game”
Here’s slices from a good discussion at the Aspen Security Forum with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and chief of naval research Admiral Lorin Selby. Hoffman […]
The choice between unique and diverse actions in weapons acquisition
For some problems, great gains will come from unique binding choices resulting from systems analyses; for others the gain will come from diversity of actions… […]
Has Congress descended from oversight to micromanagement?
Here’s a slice from a conversation between Peter Levine, Bob Work, and Susanna Blume on Peter’s recent book: Defense Management Reform. Bob Work: I do […]
Acquisition headlines (7/25 – 7/31/2022)
Kessel Run shows how to bridge the gap between development and operations. (War on the Rocks) Dan Patt and Brian Beachkofski: “But software is different. There […]