There are several ways in which Congress is a major impediment to an improved defense investment process. First, congressional committees are loath to shed their ability […]
Here are some notes on William LaPlante’s confirmation hearing to become USD Acquisition & Sustainment — courtesy of the excellent Pete Modigliani. Congress gave DoD […]
The Department of Defense is required to report to Congress on an array of national security topics each year. The number of new reporting requirements […]
The archaic defense budget process based on five-year plans, long decision making and excessive time to revenue keeps the most innovative companies from ever wanting […]
Here is Dmitri Alpervitch, co-founder of the largest cybersecurity firm in the world Crowd Strike, in a viral twitter thread: There are numerous signals that […]
When we think of alternative acquisition, that tends to be other-transaction authority and middle-tier acquisition. For [Jonathan] Etherton, these prototyping mechanisms amount to a […]
Here’s one perhaps relevant portion of an incredibly interesting discussion between Balaji Srinivasan and Tim Ferriss. Balaji remarks that the AUKUS deal in which the […]
The link is here, officially titled “Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China.” In 2020, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) announced a […]
Several recent studies have examined the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution [PPBE] process of the Department of Defense, and have recommended various improvements. Chief among […]
Of course there is the procurement cycle, which to make it very simple, it’s too long. As technology is changing rapidly, if you’re saying that […]
Back in March, Matt MacGregor and I wrote an article with the provocative title, A bridge fund won’t solve the Pentagon’s emerging tech problem. While […]
You can either look at this as deterministic history that, once upon a time there were really smart people in government who knew how to […]
Only when it’s too late, only when we have a pandemic of the scale we have now, do we realize, uh oh, we have to […]
How DoD defines “legacy systems” will drive tens of billions of dollars of investment, sustainment activities, and force structure. Everyone criticizes legacy systems, and in […]
The budgeting that Wildavsky, Caiden, and other scholars defined as “traditional” was designed to finance bureaus that provide a service to the public or, more […]
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