Consciously creating competition in government
What is the appropriate role of government in society? That’s the classical liberal question. And then what is the machinery of freedom that brings it […]
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Podcast: Getting the culture right with Soraya Correa
Soraya Correa joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss small business programs, the procurement innovation lab, workforce training programs, why contracting officers might […]
Have we reached peak “Chief …… Officer” in the DOD?
DoD leadership should focus on establishing business-reform objectives for each major DoD organization, and then holding leaders of these respective organizations accountable to the achievement […]
French to U.S. on weapons development: How do you work with so many people?!?
Mr. Shapero: They [the French] make good aircraft, and they have also had disasters. But they do it much more cheaply than we do. Spending […]
Acquisition headlines
US Army cancels current effort to replace Bradley vehicle. Is Congess purposefully underfunding Section 804 MTA programs? “Last month, Congress hacked funding for the OMFV prototyping […]
What will military aviation look like in 2050? A lot like 2020?
On average, the Army’s aircraft are 14 years old, and the Department of the Navy’s are 16 years old; the Air Force’s aircraft, on average, […]
Can the F-35 reach $25K per flying hour target by FY 2033? It depends…
It’s possible for the F-35 program to reach its target of $25,000 per flying hour, but only if there’s a substantial change… The F-35 […]
More inklings that OSD will be taking power back from the services
For the past few years, acquisition reform has brought with it a delegation of decisions from the Office of the Secretary of Defense down to […]
How should cost estimators respond to rapid acquisition?
As the Department of Defense keeps up the pressure on rapid acquisition, all functional areas are wondering how they can best support the policies. Cost […]
New policy may put the breaks on rapid acquisition
USD(A&S), however, can still disapprove any MTA [Middle Tier Acquisition] program, whether major or non-major. With advisers from all around the Office of the Secretary […]
Is poor software design/testing the REAL cause of the USS McCain crash?
A 19-year Navy veteran, Sanchez had watched as technicians replaced the ship’s traditional steering controls a year earlier with the new navigation system. Almost from […]
Podcast: Agents of Innovation with John Kuehn
In this episode of Acquisition Talk, I speak with Dr. John Kuehn. He is a professor of military history at the Army Command and General […]
One of the last vestiges of central planning left on Earth
Here’s a humorous story shared by SecDef Donald Rumsfeld back in 2001: A man and a boy were walking down the street with a donkey […]
How shared equipment dramatically lowers barriers to deep tech R&D
In the same way that AWS dramatically lowered the bar to start a software company, you’re seeing the same thing of multiple labs-as-a-service companies that […]
Explaining the valley of death in defense technology
I’m going to walk though some an excellent set of slides on the “valley of death” problem from Gary Hagan over at DAU. Let’s start […]