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LaPlante, Shyu, Lord, and others will be at GMU/DAU Conference 2022!

September 29, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

We got a killer line up at the annual GMU/DAU conference including USD A&S Bill LaPlante, USD R&E Heidi Shyu, PPBE Commissioner Ellen Lord, former […]

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Aircraft sustainment woes — And is the Air Force paying for Navy F-35 costs?

December 21, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

We found that of the 46 individual fixed- and rotary-wing types of aircraft we examined, only three met the service-established mission capable goal [80 percent] […]

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What Palantir and Lockheed’s financials say about the GovCon business

August 31, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s a good piece from Simply Statistics on Palantir: At first glance it seems their doing pretty well. Their gross profit (Revenue – Cost of […]

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Air Force reorganizes acquisition for Fighters and Bombers

May 1, 2020 Eric Lofgren 1

The Air Force Materiel Command’s Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will split Fighters and Bombers Directorate into a Fighters and Advanced Aircraft Directorate and […]

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Will bureaucracy descend on the Air Force ABMS program?

April 20, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

The Air Force’s ABMS is a family of systems intended to replace the command and control capabilities of aging legacy programs and develop a network […]

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More inklings that OSD will be taking power back from the services

January 11, 2020 Eric Lofgren 5

For the past few years, acquisition reform has brought with it a delegation of decisions from the Office of the Secretary of Defense down to […]

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Can the Air Force scale small companies into a program of record?

December 16, 2019 Eric Lofgren 4

Remember the dreaded “valley of death” in technology transition? The Air Force plans to bridge the valley by progressively scaling up its pitch days. A […]

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How SpaceX does software for 9 vehicles with only 50 developers — and gov’t requiring 50x the staff

November 21, 2019 Eric Lofgren 2

The biggest gap in the government today is enterprise services. You go to big companies, they have infrastructure cloud team, they have a platform team, […]

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Making the FAR sing isn’t enough — no one can be expert in all applicable laws, regs

October 21, 2019 Eric Lofgren 3

The cost to the taxpayer of attempting to eliminate all risk is prohibitive. The Executive Branch will accept and manage the risk associated with empowering […]

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Why aren’t investors interested in defense?

September 23, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

II think many of the policies that we have around small business have been focused on what I’d consider to be social justice more than […]

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The rapid prototyping fund is dead before it even got started

August 19, 2019 Eric Lofgren 3

Do you remember Section 828 of the FY 2016 NDAA? It’s OK, most people don’t. Here’s a refresher: For each fiscal year beginning with fiscal […]

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The Army’s intellectual property strategy is counterproductive

August 12, 2019 Eric Lofgren 4

The Army recognizes the need for intellectual property [IP]… I’m going to highlight four principles for you that underpin it.   The first principle is […]

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Rapid acquisition pathways for software — Sec. 801 (FY20 NDAA)

June 25, 2019 Eric Lofgren 1

… the Secretary of Defense shall establish guidance authorizing the use of acquisition pathways… for the rapid acquisition of software applications and software upgrades that […]

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Unified cybersecurity standards, allowable costs, and whether it makes a difference

June 20, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

“We have a great deal of standards for cybersecurity. What we are lacking is a unified standard,” Arrington said June 12 during a webinar sponsored […]

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Why Raytheon and UTC don’t want to build weapons platforms

June 17, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Neither company [Raytheon nor UTC] works as a platform producer, eschewing the production of aircraft or ground vehicles and instead focusing on the technology that […]

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