One key to software success in DoD: Consumption-Based Solutions
Here’s a lengthy but important discussion on Consumption Based Solutions from Nick Tsiopanas at a nice NPS ARP webinar, Innovations in Software Acquisition at the […]
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What are consumption-based solutions?
Volume 3 of the 809 Panel’s report takes on many of the problems of IT procurement. “Recommendation 43” focuses directly on the issue of consumption-based […]
Podcast: Bringing startups and government together with Andrea Garrity
Andrea Garrity joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss how the government can build relationships with nontraditional companies. She is the Chief Growth […]
Podcast: PPBE Reform Panel 1 — Key Recommendations
For the first time in more than 50 years, a serious discussion is emerging on the foundations of defense budgeting and oversight. The “valley of […]
Acquisition headlines (5/3/2020)
‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive. New report says SLS rocket managers concerned about fuel leaks. NASA invested 10 years […]
Acquisition headlines (8/29 – 9/4/2022)
US Army approves order for thousands of Microsoft combat goggles. (Yahoo!) “Microsoft will begin to deliver some of the 5,000 Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) […]
Podcast: Aligning government contracts with agile software
In this episode of the Acquisition Talk podcast, I host an amazing panel on contracting practices for modern software with Florence Kasule (Director of Procurement, […]
GMU Playbook: Reduce risk with modular contracting
In this week’s blog post on Mason GovCon’s acquisition playbook study, we discuss modular contracting for software-intensive systems. The Federal Acquisition Regulation prefers modular contracting […]
Acquisition headlines (8/16 – 8/22/2021)
Skunk Works will hand of ARRW production to missiles and fire control. (Air Force Magazine) Skunk Works itself has the capacity to produce 8-12 per […]
Podcast: What’s the price of an AI/ML product?
As firms are finding out, the unit economics of AI/ML is not exactly like software. It requires more manual manipulation of data than one might […]
Acquisition headlines
As SecDef “Esper launches a comprehensive review that promises to cut costs and target legacy programs that drain money from next-generation capabilities, he ought to […]