Mason GovCon’s sixth play for software-intensive systems seeks to protect the government’s interests while reducing its need for intellectual property. When government adopts commercial technology, […]
Here is a Air Force head of contracting authority Maj. Gen. Cameron Holt discussing an interesting new proposal: [Line of Effort] 3 is called “owning […]
Congress is looking to slightly expand the new appropriation for software, BA 8, from 9 pilot programs to 12. Jared Serbu has a great article […]
If I think of myself as an engineer, some of my time is debugging and thinking about what to write. But [the 10x engineer] would […]
In this week’s blog post on Mason GovCon’s acquisition playbook study, we discuss modular contracting for software-intensive systems. The Federal Acquisition Regulation prefers modular contracting […]
I wish we never became so bureaucratized that we become ineffective. We need to faithfully apply mission command. And mission command, to be properly applied, […]
In this week’s blog post on our acquisition playbook study, we discuss agile contracting. When technical solutions are uncertain, it is wise to provide room for […]
The PPBE was really a revolutionary and radical idea. One of the things it was trying to do was reduce duplication and overlap. You might […]
Jared Serbu: You already have the problem of DoD having the build a budget that they are not going to execute on for another two […]
In this week’s blog post on Mason GovCon’s acquisition playbook study, we discuss a recommendation for government to partition contract tasks alongside the modular open […]
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA): I’m honestly a little bit more on the side of we need to blow up the whole system here because the […]
Mandy Smithberger [POGO]: Something that the department’s starting to emphasize more that I hope congress will support is that we get the intellectual property rights […]
In this week’s blog post on our acquisition playbook study, we discuss a recommendation to make market research a core and continuous organizational capability. No […]
Mac Thornberry is on point in his article, How Congress must reform its budget process to compete against China in AI: The Biden administration’s 2022 budget proposal includes […]
George Mason University’s Center for Government Contracting is actively gathering feedback on its recently released draft playbook. Over the next several weeks, we will provide […]
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