What led to the decline of the Army’s arsenal system?
Perhaps the most significant causal event that signaled the demise of the arsenal system was the gradual centralization of decision-making authority within the Office of […]
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GMU Playbook: Make market research a core and continuous organizational capability
In this week’s blog post on our acquisition playbook study, we discuss a recommendation to make market research a core and continuous organizational capability. No […]
Podcast: What’s the price of an AI/ML product?
As firms are finding out, the unit economics of AI/ML is not exactly like software. It requires more manual manipulation of data than one might […]
Acquisition headlines (6/28 – 7/4/2021)
Faster weapon buys: try evolutionary innovation. (Breaking Defense) Elaine McCusker and Dan Patt recommend: “First, it needs stable lines of funding that can accommodate the […]
Acquisition headlines (6/21 – 6/27/2021)
Electronics manufacturers send warning shot across CMMC’s bow. (Federal News Network) “DoD’s own cost analysis estimated the cost of a CMMC Maturity Level 3 (ML3) […]
The Pacific Deterrence Initiative, not what the commanders ordered
Congress established the Pacific Deterrence Initiative in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act to improve the posture and readiness of U.S. forces in the Indo-Pacific region. However, […]
How DoD’s innovation fund can avoid becoming a slush fund
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 […]
Putting the scale of DoD acquisition into perspective
In the United States, proposals to centralize acquisition usually translate to combining the present procurement organizations of the military departments and creating an analog to […]
Acquisition headlines (6/14 – 6/20/2021)
Opinion: Why are US defense prime growth expectations so similar? (Aviation Week) Byron Callan: “First, if everyone is well positioned, no one is well positioned… […]
Why DoD needs more uncorrelated experiments
The thing that I will cry from the rooftops is that we just need more uncorrelated experiments. If you spend all the money in the […]
Podcast: Next steps in acquisition reform with Dan Ward, Pete Modigliani, and Matt MacGregor
I was pleased to have an impressive trio from MITRE join me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the future of acquisition reform. Dan […]
Acquisition headlines (6/7 – 6/13/2021)
The pitfalls of factoring in security and CMMC costs. (National Defense Magazine) “Up to [CMMC] Level 3 will be included in your indirect rates. So, […]
Acquisition headlines (5/31 – 6/6/2021)
Navy tries to cut four littoral combat ships to save $186M in FY 22 budget. (USNI News) “… the second Independence-class aluminum trimaran USS Coronado […]
Podcast: Air Force fighters now and into the future with Mike Benitez
Mike Benitez joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to talk about the current state and future of the Air Force fighter inventory. He discusses the […]
Acquisition headlines (5/24 – 5/31/2021)
The Department of Defense releases the President’s FY 2022 Defense Budget. (DoD) And don’t forget the Acquisition Costs by Weapon System. New DOD budget seeks […]