The cost-saving success of @Commercial_Crew is based on @NASA establishing high-level requirements and letting private companies innovate. For the Artemis Moon base, NASA will establish […]
From a cultural perspective, the bloated program offices reporting to large bureaucracies of functional and headquarters offices stifling creativity and innovation while attempting to deliver […]
We’ve seen this pendulum swing drastically over the last few decades. In the middle of the 20th Century we saw thousands of companies iteratively delivering […]
A presentation by ASD(Acquisition) Kevin Fahey to the advisory board for George Mason’s Center for Government Contracting went into the details of the AAF and […]
Federal non-defense COVID-19 contract dollars saw a rapid increase during the month of March to an average of over $300 million obligated each day (Figure […]
The world is accelerating into the future, but the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) requirements system is stuck in the past… This paper proposes a three-pronged […]
So why is this so hard? For years, the acquisition community has been saying program and funding stability are essential to acquisition reform. To that […]
Managing purchase actions with FAR 13.5 streamlined protocols and processes to conduct the construct, solicitation, and award of the purchase results in dramatically less “touch […]
Preparation for Joint Warfighting is impeded by difficulties inherent in equipping a Joint Force by the separated Services. Divisions continue like fractals to the finest […]
On March 13 2020, the new DoD Instruction 5000.73 was released as part of the 5000.02 rewrite for Adaptive Acquisition Framework. It provides new guidance […]
The thing we’re going to have to show is that we can deconstruct a major effort like this — not run it like a major […]
Designing the production system of a new product is at least an order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude harder than designing to initial […]
I think the Pentagon is going to look in the long term to the last frontier of acquisition reform, which is the budget process. One […]
It’s never been easier to get a small contract. There’s pitch days, their DIU, there AFWERX. That’s not the challenge. The challenge is, how do […]
It will be essential to focus the marketplace on commercial technology areas that have clear applications across a broad range of national security capabilities, and […]
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