Imagine you’re the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and in walks a group of consultants who tell you that you can save $125 billion over five years if you act on their recommendations. You flip through their PowerPoint brief stacked with charts and buzz words like optimize, modernize, and agile enterprise.
The Space Development Agency, which would be a joint procurement arm in charge of setting standards and avoiding the duplication on space technology, appears to […]
When economists think about contracting, usually they think about voluntary agreements made between two or more parties. But in the DOD, neither the customer nor […]
Xerox PARC came out of a similar structure [as Bell Labs]. Xerox at the time was a structural monopoly and not a legal one because […]
Here’s a correspondence with Sylvain Lenfle, professor of innovation management: Eric: Though I don’t want to take too much of your time, I would like to […]
Sam Walker’s book, The Captain Class, convincingly argues that the common ingredient to all the best sports teams has not been a great coach, but […]
DARPA and the service research labs achieve amazing results. Have you heard about electronics that will physically vanish on command to prevent adversaries from copying our […]
If “bureaucracy” suggests uncompromising adherence to established rules and procedures, a hierarchy of decision-making power, and a tendency to avoid risk (often by delaying action […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The DOD always wants to modernize at the expense of operations & maintenance. When the Navy developed the first submarine platform to launch nuclear weapons […]
Its always good to remember, don’t put all your eggs in one basket: “On October 10th 2018 a van parked at a motel adjacent to […]
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