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Leap to Disruptive Technologies: One Account of Many for Cost Disease

October 31, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

I recently wrote about the available evidence of cost disease in weapon systems acquisition. How about causes of cost disease? There are many explanations relevant […]

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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 […]

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Counterarguments to Acquisition Reform

October 20, 2018 Eric Lofgren 2

I’m happy to announce that I’m an Emergent Ventures fellow! I start with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University on October 22. My venture […]

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