Podcast: Getting weapons into production with USD A&S Bill LaPlante
The Undersecretary for Acquisition & Sustainment (USD A&S) Bill LaPlante joined us at the 2022 Conference hosted by George Mason University and Defense Acquisition University. […]
Month: November 2022
Tech bros vs. munitions at scale — what is helping Ukraine?
Here’s some good tweeting from Politico’s Lee Hudson on USD A&S Bill LaPlante’s keynote speech at the GMU-DAU Conference. A couple of the controversial points: […]
It takes exceptional people to do average work with DoD’s budgeting system
“I had a boss one time who said the processes and systems we have [in PPBE] are such that it takes exceptional people to do […]
Acquisition headlines (10/31 – 11/6/2022)
Pentagon, Congress have trust issues, budget reform panel’s Lord says. (Defense News) From the GMU-DAU Conference: “Early work by a congressionally mandated budget reform commission […]
Founder vs. Inheritance and other deep problems of DoD innovation
Here are some slices from an epic podcast with Balaji Srinivasan and Lex Fridman: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA. The US […]
The Ever Shrinking Fighting Force: Excerpts from Punaro’s book
Here are some excerpts from MG Arnold Punaro’s recent book, The Ever Shrinking Fighting Force. It is packed with data on how costs have increased […]
Data on tech transition success to SBIR Phase III in the Air Force
Here’s an article in the Defense Acquisition Review Journal, Innovation Transition Success: Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect. A SBIR project is considered successful when the product […]
SpaceX’s speed to market is fast and getting faster. NASA… not so much.
Here’s the excellent Bent Flyvbjerg and Atif Ansar’s latest article, Speed-to-Market for SpaceX and NASA. Note that the efforts tracked by Bent include Falcon 1, […]