Acquisition headlines (5/17 – 5/23/2021)
Defense Navigation Capabilities: DoD is developing PNT technologies to complement GPS. (GAO) “DOD’s alternative PNT science and technology portfolio explores two approaches: improved sensors to […]
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Acquisition headlines (5/10 – 5/16/2021)
CSAF: F-22 not in USAF’s long-term plan. (Air Force Magazine) “Charles Q. Brown Jr. wants to neck down the Air Force’s fighter inventory from seven […]
Acquisition headlines (5/3 – 5/9/2021)
Space Force unveils its ‘vision for a digital service.’ (USSF) “Acknowledging that space is the only physical domain without humans in place to conduct military […]
Acquisition headlines (4/26 – 5/2/2021)
Russia’s increasing military flights around Alaska are ‘a strain on our units,’ top US commander says. (Business Insider) “As a matter of fact, the highest […]
Acquisition headlines (4/18 – 4/25/2021)
China’s new stealth drone “Feilong 2′ already ahead of US’ B-21 stealth bomber — Chinese Experts. (The EurAsian Times) “… the Xian-based drone maker’s multirole […]
Acq Talk blog update
A few Acquisition Talk updates for you: Weekend posts will be discontinued (at least for now). Don’t worry, I’m not taking a holiday. I’m reinvesting […]
Event: Measuring R&D productivity
R&D is an easy target for cuts when firms face pressure from quarterly earnings. One problem is that firms don’t have a metric to benchmark […]
Acquisition headlines (4/11 – 4/17/2021)
Deterring great power conflict through software development. (US Army) “It’s been an interesting two-and-a-half years of getting this organization stood-up,” said Gen. John M. Murray, […]
Acquisition headlines (4/4 – 4/10/2021)
Defense Business Brief: Defense giants gird for tax battle; $715B skinny budget; Mixed readiness picture; and more… (Defense One) “Raytheon Technologies CEO Greg Hayes issued […]
Acquisition headlines (3/28 – 4/3/2021)
Brown tapped for Pentagon acquisition chief. (Inside Defense) “President Biden intends to nominate Michael Brown, the director of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, to be […]
Acquisition headlines (3/21 – 3/27/2021)
SpaceX reducing booster production in recent years. (Reddit SpaceX Lounge) Boosters produced increased from two in 2012 to 13 in 2017, then declined to 15, […]
Acquisition headlines (3/13 – 3/20/2021)
3D systems and Huntington Ingalls to qualify corrosion-proof shipbuilding alloys. (3D Printing Industry) “3D Systems is formulating novel Copper-Nickel (CuNi) and Nickel-Copper (NiCu) alloys, that […]
Acquisition headlines (3/7 – 3/13/2021)
China’s 2nd Type 055 Destroyer ‘Lhasa’ Commissioned with PLAN. (Naval News) “The Type 055 destroyers are the largest surface combatant currently being built in the […]
PPBE reform event: an imperative for winning the great power competition
… in my mind, I equate planning and budgeting and consider the terms almost synonymous, the budget being simply a quantitative expression of operating plans. […]
Acquisition headlines (2/28 – 3/6/2021)
Agile product management: how to build weapons faster and better. (Breaking Defense) “This level of integration introduces complexity to the point where agile software development […]