In this week’s blog post on our acquisition playbook study, we discuss a recommendation to make market research a core and continuous organizational capability. No […]
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 […]
Faster weapon buys: try evolutionary innovation. (Breaking Defense) Elaine McCusker and Dan Patt recommend: “First, it needs stable lines of funding that can accommodate the […]
Mac Thornberry is on point in his article, How Congress must reform its budget process to compete against China in AI: The Biden administration’s 2022 budget proposal includes […]
It is possible to argue that theses savings in material costs were a large extent mere matters of bookkeeping. They were reductions only in a […]
George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting is actively gathering feedback on its recently released draft playbook. Over the next several weeks, we will provide […]
Talking with Eric Torenberg, Noah Smith says “The Fed will not stick to any rules that it officially adopts.” (minute 32) “The Fed will always exercise […]
Electronics manufacturers send warning shot across CMMC’s bow. (Federal News Network) “DoD’s own cost analysis estimated the cost of a CMMC Maturity Level 3 (ML3) […]
Congress established the Pacific Deterrence Initiative in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act to improve the posture and readiness of U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific region. However, […]
Back in March, Matt MacGregor and I wrote an article with the provocative title, A bridge fund won’t solve the Pentagon’s emerging tech problem. While […]
In the United States, proposals to centralize acquisition usually translate to combining the present procurement organizations of the military departments and creating an analog to […]
George Mason University is developing a playbook to help government work with innovative industry partners. After more than 70 interviews with expert practitioners, the Center […]
Opinion: Why are US defense prime growth expectations so similar? (Aviation Week) Byron Callan: “First, if everyone is well positioned, no one is well positioned… […]
Soldier input directly shaped many of the headset’s key features. Early prototypes included a HoloLens headset that engineers had affixed cameras to, goggles with weights […]
The thing that I will cry from the rooftops is that we just need more uncorrelated experiments. If you spend all the money in the […]
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