Venture Capital takes advantage of power-law distribution, should the Department of Defense?
Here is venture investor Steve Kim on data-driven insights from the Venture Stories podcast. We model that 30% of the startups that we invest in […]
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The mismatch between acquisition and resourcing, 5000.1 and PPBE
Here’s a slice from “The DSARC and PPBS decision making process within DOD” by Goral, Frank Ivan. Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, Dec 1979. Remember, […]
Acquisition headlines (9/26 – 10/2/2022)
GAO: Navy’s XLUUV undersea minelayer $242M over budget, 3 years behind schedule. (USNI News) “The service contracted in March of 2019 with Boeing to build […]
LaPlante, Shyu, Lord, and others will be at GMU/DAU Conference 2022!
We got a killer line up at the annual GMU/DAU conference including USD A&S Bill LaPlante, USD R&E Heidi Shyu, PPBE Commissioner Ellen Lord, former […]
Acquisition headlines (9/19 – 9/25/2022)
SDA a ‘model’ that could shake up all space acquisition: Calvelli. (Breaking Defense) ““They are building small, they are doing things on two-year [cycles], and […]
Origins of the Milestone acquisition process
One of the foundations of the defense acquisition system is the DoD Directive 5000.1, which defines how military systems progress from an idea to production. […]
Acquisition headlines (9/12 – 9/18/2022)
DoD must move faster to leverage commercial technology. (Real Clear Defense) Rep Mike Gallagher: “First, the Pentagon needs to think outside the box when it […]
Will inflation cause a $110 billion loss in DoD buying power between FY21-FY23?
A new paper from recent AcqTalk guest John Whitley and two PPBE Reform commissioners David Norquist and Lisa Disbrow has been released: “How Inflation Hurts […]
Acquisition headlines (9/5 – 9/11/2022)
Naval research boss wants ‘experimentation czar’ powers. (Defense News) “Rear Adm. Lorin Selby said the change would amount to an additional responsibility for him, or […]
Why it’s so hard to accelerate change as a junior officer
Here’s an insightful episode of the Defense Unicorns podcast with Artem Sherbinin, a Lieutenant in the US Navy who was integral to the first applying […]
How the geometry of investing in defense startups is different
Here’s a few slices from a great Venture Stories podcast with Alex Moore, an investor at 8VC and before that he was one of the […]
Podcast: What it takes in acquisition to deter China
A new paper from MITRE takes an end-to-end look at how military strategy gets translated into the types of weapon systems actually bought through the […]
Acquisition headlines (8/29 – 9/4/2022)
US Army approves order for thousands of Microsoft combat goggles. (Yahoo!) “Microsoft will begin to deliver some of the 5,000 Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) […]
Costs, requirements, and the development of the jet engine
Here’s an excerpt from Robert Perry’s 1967 paper, “Innovation and Military Requirements: A Comparative Study.” In it, he finds that one of the inventors of […]
Case study on the Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell (JRAC)
After the start of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, each of the services and Central Command established processes for dealing with urgent requirements on the […]