Notes from Will Roper’s talk to students: Tons of great insights!
Here are some notes of mine from watching Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper’s talk given to Steve Blank, Joe Felter, and Raj Shah’s class […]
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Can the military’s operating system for war succeed at scale?
Anduril is best known for supplying surveillance towers and software used to watch over the US-Mexico border and some US bases. Now, it is retooling the software […]
Important decisions are not made the way economic textbooks teach us
Here’s a nice exchange between Agnes Callard and Russ Roberts on EconTalk. Remember — the defense resource allocation process, the PPBE, was explicitly created on […]
New defense policy released for Software Acquisition Pathway – DoDI 5000.87
Programs executing the software acquisition pathway are not subject to the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), and will be handled as specifically provided […]
Real time cross-domain kill webs — ACK and STITCHES
Two DARPA-developed technologies – a novel decision aid for mission commanders and a rapid software integration tool – played a critical role in the recent […]
Acquisition headlines (9/20 – 9/26/20)
Picking 1st ABMS capabilities to top issue. ““I’ve been waiting for the department’s equivalent of a Sputnik or Alpha-Go moment where AI did something that […]
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 […]
Gov’t funding is short-term, project-based, risk-averse, and prone to groupthink
One hypothesis I’d like to investigate is that we’ve gotten a little too centralized and monolithic in our funding. That is something to address. The […]
Acquisition headlines
Will Roper: Startup.mil to Startup.com? “Like the impeded response of Xerox to personal computers, Sears to e-commerce, or Blockbuster to video streaming, our military could […]
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 […]
Transcripts to the Acquistion Talk episode with Steve Blank
Here are the transcripts to my discussion with entrepreneur Steve Blank. I apologize for the general lack of punctuation. ______________________ Eric Lofgren: i’m speaking with […]
Analyzing data on the defense industrial base with Amanda Bresler and Alex Bresler
The sibling team that is Amanda Bresler and Alex Bresler joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss their recent analysis on defense contracts, […]
Acquisition headlines
ABMS moves ahead with second round of contract awards. Adds 18 companies to 28 previously selected to compete for ABMS work. That sounds like a […]
Podcast: Revamping the way we think about defense with Steve Blank
Steve Blank joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the urgency of defense innovation in a world of authoritarian peer competitors. Steve is […]