There is no spoon: A look into Will Roper’s new digital acquisition reality
As background, we’re all aware U.S. military aviation has been collapsing for nearly 40 years. In the 1950s, over a dozen companies built spiraling supersonic […]
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Effectiveness over Efficiency: Preparing the US Industrial Base for Mobilization
Mike Petters, President and CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries: “Lack of resiliency comes from an overemphasis on efficiency at expense of risk management. I was […]
Acquisition Headlines (9/27 – 10/3/2020)
US Army and USAF to jointly develop battlefield network, called CJADC2. Combines Army Project Convergence with Advanced Battle Management System. Navy have been less public. […]
Podcast: An aviator’s perspective on AlphaDogfight, NGAD, and beyond with Ryan Fishel
Ryan “Stinger” Fishel joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the future of the fighter aircraft community. Ryan is an F-15E pilot for […]
Ratio of sustainment to acquisition costs — is modernization being crowded out?
The graph shows the four phases of a program’s cost over its lifetime: research and development (R&D), procurement, O&S, and disposal, with O&S considered the […]
Why are analysts complicit in cost and schedule growth?
I showed that for 10 projects for which a cost risk analysis had been conducted, the actual cost was greater than the 90th percentile for […]
Acquisition headlines (9/13 – 9/19/20)
Esper’s Convenient Lie. Argues the DoD isn’t at a good force structure for Russia/China not because of sequestration and focus on counterterrorism, but because DoD […]
Roper’s vision for digital acquisition: The tech stack, the edge, and digital engineering
Getting a lot of play is Air Force acquisition executive Will Roper’s article, “Take the Red Pill: The New Digital Acquisition Reality.” Some of that […]
Acquisition headlines
Inside project convergence: How the US Army is preparing for war in the next decade. “… this generation’s digital Louisiana Maneuvers” in the Arizona desert, […]
Throw out the linear model of innovation for tinkering at the frontiers
One of the posts I wrote was a case study of the transistor. The transistor was invested at Bell Labs in the semiconductor research group. […]
CSAF says ‘Accelerate Change or Lose,’ but can he follow through?
… we must reframe platform-centric debates to focus instead on capabilities to execute the mission relative to our adversaries. Programs that once held promise, but […]
What Palantir and Lockheed’s financials say about the GovCon business
Here’s a good piece from Simply Statistics on Palantir: At first glance it seems their doing pretty well. Their gross profit (Revenue – Cost of […]
Acquisition headlines
Air Force moving project maven into advanced battle management system portfolio. That’s nearly doubling ABMS’s FY21 request, with Maven’s Algorithmic Warfare Cross Functional Team at […]
Special event: The Next Frontier of Acquisition Reform
Please join me in a special Mason GovCon webinar event on the future of budget reform on Wednesday, Aug. 19 at 2:30pm EST. Why the […]
Acquisition headlines
An Air Force pilot will battle AI in a virtual F-16 dogfight next week. You can watch it live. “We envision a future in which […]