Anduril shows off very cool capabilities for ABMS
As we look at how we close kill chains, there’s very much a man in the loop at every single point. That process today takes […]
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Please bring back the Rapid Innovation Fund — and fund it well!
The architect of the Navy’s RIF [Rapid Innovation Fund] program, Brad Pantuck, was at the event as well. He said, “About 40 percent of our […]
Acquisition headlines (5/3/2020)
‘I Could Solve Most of Your Problems’: Eric Schmidt’s Pentagon Offensive. New report says SLS rocket managers concerned about fuel leaks. NASA invested 10 years […]
Air Force reorganizes acquisition for Fighters and Bombers
The Air Force Materiel Command’s Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will split Fighters and Bombers Directorate into a Fighters and Advanced Aircraft Directorate and […]
Few defense firms closed due to Covid-19, and more industry impacts
Defense Contract Management Agency data shows that about 106 out of 10,509 primary Pentagon contractors are closed. 68 companies have closed but subsequently reopened. On […]
Software tooling: The next technology high ground for interservice rivalry
… the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command Software Engineering Center is taking on the challenge with an ambitious initiative known as the Software Engineering Environment, or […]
Acquisition headlines
DoD officials are extremely aware, almost to the point of paranoia, that even discussing the issue of NRO potentially being subsumed by the Space Force […]
Podcast: Defense management reform with Peter Levine
Peter Levine joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast about his new book, Defense Management Reform: How to Make the Pentagon Work Better and Cost […]
Marc Andreessen says it’s time to build. But what’s standing in the way?
Medical equipment and financial conduits involve no rocket science whatsoever. At least therapies and vaccines are hard! Making masks and transferring money are not hard. […]
Financial managers: the “garrison in the conquered city” of the Pentagon?
The principal antagonist of the Joint Chiefs within the central defense organization was the Comptroller. Like the JCS, however, his office afforded an excellent illustration […]
Space industry proposal for sustaining companies through Covid-19
Safeguarding our national security space industrial base in the face of the economic downturn warrants proactive measures to inject funding and sustain critical commercial space […]
Podcast: The future of Navy software development with Lt. Sean Lavelle
I was pleased to speak with Navy Lieutenant Sean Lavelle on the Acquisition Talk podcast. He is the founder and lead of the iLoc development […]
Proposal for enterprise-level requirements
The world is accelerating into the future, but the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) requirements system is stuck in the past… This paper proposes a three-pronged […]
Acquisition headlines
Coronavirus hits defense contractor jobs. Boeing’s Puget Sound shutdown affects 70,000 workers and the P-8 and KC-46 programs. GE cut 2,600 employees (10%). Textron furloughed […]
Evaluating price for Other Transactions contracts: call for ideas
The 2018 DOD OTA Guidebook states: “The Government team shall determine price reasonableness. The Government team may need data to establish price reasonableness, including commercial […]