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DARPA anthropologist talks culture, science, teamwork, and replication

October 30, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

DARPA has a cultural anthropologist with interesting insights: Cultural anthropology really studies the world we make for ourselves. There we veer into the realm of […]

Defense Acquisition as a Cost Disease Sector: What’s the Evidence?

October 29, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

At any given time, you will have sectors where demand is growing faster than productivity (think of health care and education) and other sectors where […]

Critiques of the DOD requirements process

October 28, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

A major part of the military’s struggle to keep up with, much less stay ahead of, global and technological change lies in its requirements process […]

Clarifications on Then Year dollars

October 27, 2018 Eric Lofgren 1

In a previous post, I described the difference between Then Year dollars, or money that will be spent over a period of years, and Current […]

Update on readiness, getting fighter aircraft to 80%

October 26, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

I discussed how the FY 2019 NDAA has pilfered O&M funds for RDT&E, likely putting system readinesss in an even worse position. Now, the SecDef […]

Explanations for defense CEO pay jumps after 9-11

October 25, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

CEO pay for defense contractors skyrocketed after 9-11 but before the invasion of Iraq. Lockheed Martin: $5.8M in 2000 increased to $25.3M in 2002 General […]

Readiness Crisis in the Making

October 24, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

The DOD always wants to modernize at the expense of operations & maintenance. When the Navy developed the first submarine platform to launch nuclear weapons […]

Euro Shipbuilding Consolidation?

October 23, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

DefenseNews asks of the European shipbuilding industry: “Is there enough drive to reach a unified shipbuilding enterprise?… “As European shipbuilders prepare to transform their nations’ […]