Podcast: How innovation really works with Anne Marie Knott
Anne Marie Knott joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss her book How Innovation Really Works. She is a professor teaching strategy and […]
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Transcripts: How innovation really works with Anne Marie Knott
Listen to the podcast here, and read the write up here. _____________________ Eric Lofgren: I’m here with Anne Marie Knott she’s a professor teaching strategy […]
Was Eisenhower’s military-industrial speech a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Eisenhower was going to call this new animal the “military-industrial-congressional complex,” which most would agree today is a pretty accurate description of the system since […]
There’s no free lunch in DoD organizational design
When Burke became chief of naval operations, the conflict between the Bureau of Ordnance and the Bureau of Aeronautics in the guided missile field, under […]
Defense industrial strategy for the Biden administration
The fundamental challenge I see for the Biden administration is balancing reshoring versus Buy America. The Buy America approach is problematic when it comes to […]
Jacques Gansler’s take on congressional micromanagement
Congress has not in recent years demonstrated a willingness to delegate fiscal authority to operating managers in the DOD. On the contrary, Congress has tended […]
Acquisition headlines (1/17 – 1/23/2021)
Top DoD weapons buyer: How the Pentagon transformed its approach to information-age warfare. (Business Insider) “People, however, are the most important aspect of this revolution. […]
What is the difference between JADC2 and Mosaic Warfare?
I would argue that JADC2 is about giving the warfighter more options. What we’re trying to do with mosaic is do that with speed. The […]
DoD processes increase complexity, cost at the expense of reliability
The prospect of technological advances still persuades planners and decisionmakers to seek increased performance, greater precision, added function capability, and thus more complexity, all of […]
Can the DoD and Congress embrace new ways of buying software?
Software collapses the division between design and manufacture. Once a software program is designed through coding, it can be almost instantaneously manufactured through compiling. Freed […]
Space Force harkens back to an old way of organizing for acquisition
Through the end of the 1940s, the Air Materiel Command had assigned two “project officers”—one for development and one for production—to monitor each system’s acquisition. […]
Great Power Competition with Richard Danzig
Richard Danzig joined me on a joint episode of the Acquisition Talk and China Talk podcasts to discuss US-China relations and military innovation. Richard is […]
Acquisition headlines (12/20 – 12/26/2020)
Dr Ryan Starkley: Developing supersonic drones. (sUAS News) “Currently, there is no cost-effective way to test things that are traveling at high-subsonic and low-supersonic speeds. […]
Moving from opinion-based to evidence-based requirements
Business models for developing technologies for a profit are end-to-end solutions that cannot be adopted by the Army acquisition enterprise for several reasons, not the […]
Congressional view of oversight and transparency needs an overhaul
I think this provides some color as to why the Air Force’s top priority programs are being cut by congressional appropriators from $302 to $158 […]