Podcast: Lt. Gen. David Deptula (ret.) on mosaic warfare, strategy, and the digital century series
I was please to speak with Lt. Gen. David Deptula (ret.) on the Acquisition Talk podcast. He is currently Dean at the Mitchell Institute for […]
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Risk identification, the acquisition process, and system resiliency
“We want to expand people’s view about what technology is; it includes people and process and is part of a sociotechnical system,” Mineweaser said. “The […]
Podcast: Andrew Hunter on software-defined, hardware-based adaptable systems
Andrew Hunter, director of the defense-industrial group at CSIS, joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss a set of papers on adaptable systems, […]
How SpaceX does software for 9 vehicles with only 50 developers — and gov’t requiring 50x the staff
The biggest gap in the government today is enterprise services. You go to big companies, they have infrastructure cloud team, they have a platform team, […]
Differing opinions of requirements: how fixed should they be ahead of prototyping?
Here is the opinion of the Requirements & Concepts Panel for the Army Materiel Acquisition Review Committee (AMARC) of 1974: In the opinion of our […]
Do government pricing policies hinder 1,000 fold improvements in cost or capabilities?
Felix is developing a highly differentiated product that he’s been working on for the last 15 years that also has these massive business implications for […]
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NASA report finds Boeing seat prices are 60% higher than SpaceX. A slice: “[Boeing] has received a total of $4.82 billion from NASA over the […]
How cost-plus contracting slowed space technologies, and the shift back to mission-based specs
It starts back in the 1960s with the Apollo program being successful. The way that space used to work back then was that everything was […]
If you try to maintain initial trust by covering up mistakes, then you lose trust when they catch you
Harry: You say: “If soldiers trust the general, communication will be vastly more efficient.” What are your biggest lessons on how to create an environment […]
Loose cultures, tight cultures, and the USD(AT&L) break up
Loose cultures have a great benefit in terms of creating ideas but they’re not necessarily great at implementing them. So you think of innovation, it […]
Acquisition headlines
One view of the F-35: Pentagon And Lockheed Martin Agree To Big Cost Reduction On F-35 Fighters. A slice: “The most common variant, to be […]
Eisenhower’s appeal for increased efficiency and economy — the Single Manager Plan
Today, most of our defense funds are appropriated not to the Secretary of Defense but rather to the military departments. The Secretary of Defense and […]
How has DIU performed in transitioning technologies?
Since 2015, millions of dollars have been invested in the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, the agency watched as some of its projects fell flat, and […]
Podcast: Don Vandergriff on dropping Taylorism and adopting mission command
I was pleased to have Don Vandergriff on the Acquistion Talk podcast. Don is a prolific educator of military training and strategy, and he has […]
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Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10 Billion JEDI Contract, Thwarting Amazon. “In 20 years of covering tech, I’ve never seen a battle for any type of contract […]