Haunted by the spectre of over-study in weapon needs
At OSD level, they really don’t do much systems analysis. What they do mostly, endlessly and in almost excruciating detail is weapon requirements analysis. Summed […]
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Broad Considerations for Entering the Defense Market
A few days ago I discussed the saga of the JEDI cloud computing contract, which engaged tech firms like Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, and Google. […]
What can we learn from Eric Schmidt and apply to defense acquisition?
Xerox PARC came out of a similar structure [as Bell Labs]. Xerox at the time was a structural monopoly and not a legal one because […]
B-52 Development and Defense Lessons from Armen Alchian
Mandeles argues convincingly that recognizing the inevitability of error may be the single most important factor in the design of effective organizations and procedures to […]
Sylvain Lenfle answers questions on Innovation Management
Here’s a correspondence with Sylvain Lenfle, professor of innovation management: Eric: Though I don’t want to take too much of your time, I would like to […]
Remember the days when Congress didn’t earmark defense projects?
His business provided jobs in Dorsey’s district, and jobs were scarce. Pitcairn was delighted when Dorsey introduced a bill to provide $2 million to the […]
Leap to Disruptive Technologies: One Account of Many for Cost Disease
I recently wrote about the available evidence of cost disease in weapon systems acquisition. How about causes of cost disease? There are many explanations relevant […]
DARPA anthropologist talks culture, science, teamwork, and replication
DARPA has a cultural anthropologist with interesting insights: Cultural anthropology really studies the world we make for ourselves. There we veer into the realm of […]
Critiques of the DOD requirements process
A major part of the military’s struggle to keep up with, much less stay ahead of, global and technological change lies in its requirements process […]