Making it easier to do business with allies and scale new tech
Jerry McGinn and Bill Greenwalt spoke with Vago Muradian on the Defense and Aerospace Report on building industrial resilience. First up is Jerry — executive […]
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How metrics led to the deprioritization of delivering capability: DoD obligation rates
Here’s a slice of a paper from Col. Jesse Marsalis at National Defense University: The Negative Impacts of the Benchmarks. The benchmarks in question of […]
Acquisition headlines (8/15 – 8/21/2022)
Upstart Anduril Australia hopes to make 100s of large drone subs, ITAR free, CEO says. (Breaking Defense) “CEO and chairman David Goodrich told Breaking Defense […]
How Kessel Run was able to survive the bureaucracy’s attempts to squash it
Here’s just one segment from an excellent interview with Will Roper on the Defense Unicorns podcast with Rob Slaughter, who worked on software factory efforts […]
Congress pushes back on the critical munitions fund
Here’s former USD Comptroller Dov Zakheim on the status of a critical munitions fund at The Hill: Congress should reconsider Austin’s request to fund ‘critical […]
Acquisition headlines (8/1 – 8/7/2022)
US Army, not Meta, is building the metaverse. (Venture Beat) “In terms of industry progress towards the cloud-supported, scalable metaverse, no organization has come further […]
Federal contractors don’t know which decade they’re in for software development — “We’ve got to change the game”
Here’s slices from a good discussion at the Aspen Security Forum with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and chief of naval research Admiral Lorin Selby. Hoffman […]
Has Congress descended from oversight to micromanagement?
Here’s a slice from a conversation between Peter Levine, Bob Work, and Susanna Blume on Peter’s recent book: Defense Management Reform. Bob Work: I do […]
Acquisition headlines (7/25 – 7/31/2022)
Kessel Run shows how to bridge the gap between development and operations. (War on the Rocks) Dan Patt and Brian Beachkofski: “But software is different. There […]
How to rejuvenate speed in the aerospace and defense sector
The global aerospace and defense (A&D) industry can produce astonishingly advanced airplanes and other complex equipment, but it routinely fails to develop those programs on time, on […]
Podcast: Strategic planning and digital transformation with John Whitley
I was pleased to have the John Whitley join me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss digital transformation, the potential for “as a service” […]
Middle-Tier of Acquisition is under serious threat unless oversight can think differently
Here’s an update on Middle-Tier of Acquisition (MTA) authorities and how they are facing serious backlash from oversight. MTAs, of course, provide DoD rapid prototyping […]
Acquisition headlines (7/18 – 7/24/2022)
RIMPAC 2022: Navy teaming warships with unmanned surface vessels. (USNI News) “Cmdr. Jeremiah Daley, the commander of the recently established Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One, said […]
Deep tech development strategies and imperatives for DoD reform
Here is AJ Piplica, CEO of the hypersonic vehicles company Hermeus, on the Venture Stories podcast discussing the importance of generating revenue ahead of the […]
Acquisition headlines (7/11 – 7/17/2022)
Army acquisition exec pushes for joint JADC2 office, large-scale exercise. (Breaking Defense) “Doug Bush, the assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, […]