LaPlante, Shyu, Lord, and others will be at GMU/DAU Conference 2022!
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?
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] […]
What Palantir and Lockheed’s financials say about the GovCon business
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 […]
Air Force reorganizes acquisition for Fighters and Bombers
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 […]
Will bureaucracy descend on the Air Force ABMS program?
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 […]
More inklings that OSD will be taking power back from the services
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 […]
Can the Air Force scale small companies into a program of record?
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 […]
How SpaceX does software for 9 vehicles with only 50 developers — and gov’t requiring 50x the staff
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, […]
Making the FAR sing isn’t enough — no one can be expert in all applicable laws, regs
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 […]
Why aren’t investors interested in defense?
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 […]
The rapid prototyping fund is dead before it even got started
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 […]
The Army’s intellectual property strategy is counterproductive
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 […]
Rapid acquisition pathways for software — Sec. 801 (FY20 NDAA)
… the Secretary of Defense shall establish guidance authorizing the use of acquisition pathways… for the rapid acquisition of software applications and software upgrades that […]
Unified cybersecurity standards, allowable costs, and whether it makes a difference
“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 […]
Why Raytheon and UTC don’t want to build weapons platforms
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 […]