Government in-house talent and the Bell Report of 1962
[Budget Director David Bell’s] report of April 1962 recommended continuing a heavy reliance on private contractors. The government, however, needed enough in-house competence so that […]
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Army-Air Force spat over long range fires exposes policy failures
The U.S. Air Force general in charge of managing the service’s bomber inventory slammed the Army’s new plan to base long-range missiles in the Pacific, calling […]
Podcast: PPBE Reform Panel 2 — From Ideas to Implementation
In this second discussion on the future of the Planning-Programming-Budgeting-Execution (PPBE) process, Center for Government Contracting executive director Jerry McGinn hosts a distinguished panel including: […]
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, […]
Is the Pentagon’s tech outreach being undermined?
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks specifically called out the “so-called valley of death” as a barrier to innovation in a virtual speech at the National […]
Podcast: Affecting the strategic calculus with Michele Flournoy
Michele Flournoy joined Jordan Schneider and I on a crossover episode of the China Talk and Acquisition Talk podcasts. She is a former Undersecretary of […]
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 […]
Podcast: eVTOLs, Agility Prime, and AFWERX with Col. Nathan Diller
Colonel Nathan Diller joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the Agility Prime line of effort that seeks an innovative acquisition approach to […]
A bridge fund can’t solve the Pentagon’s emerging tech problem
Matt MacGregor and I published an article in Defense News outlining five reasons that a bridge fund or prototyping fund won’t solve DoD’s valley of […]
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 […]
Bob Work on the role of the JAIC and PPBE reform to success of AI/ML
The department, we think, must ensure it has in place the resources processes and organizations to enable AI innovation. The department needs to establish a […]
The debate over defining “legacy” weapon systems
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 […]
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. […]
Defense decision-making beyond neoclassical economics
Well, in the article I caricatured how economists look at preference. So, let me do it in two stages. First, the way economists usually look […]