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Podcast: Defense Budget Reform with Katharina McFarland, Bill Greenwalt, and Bob Daigle

September 14, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

I was please to host a webinar event with George Mason’s Center for Government Contracting featuring three former Pentagon executives. We discussed my white paper […]

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What’s holding DIU back from scaling technologies?

August 14, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

“We’re not moving in government at an agile pace that reflects the nature of the competition. It’s about speed,” the DIU director said. “When we […]

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Congress has a bold vision for Navy subsystem prototyping, but here’s what they’re missing

July 10, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

As the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has documented, lead ships in new classes of naval vessels routinely fail to meet expectations… It was not always this […]

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Special Event: Virtual Session on Budget Reform (Jun. 29 @ 1pm EST)

June 26, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Please join me and Matt MacGregor for a virtual session hosted by the NatSecGirlSquad on the topic of budget reform. Here’s a quick synopsis: The […]

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Defense budget reform in Senate’s draft FY21 NDAA

June 25, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

The bill pays particular attention to how the Pentagon manages its substantial budget and implements numerous provisions designed to streamline work, expand the ability of […]

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Here’s a better way for the Space Force to be financially agile

June 23, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

When Roper was in charge of the Strategic Capabilities Office he had the ability to move money between programs in a way that allowed him […]

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The last frontier of acquisition reform

March 7, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

I think the Pentagon is going to look in the long term to the last frontier of acquisition reform, which is the budget process. One […]

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Startups won’t scale in defense without budget flexibility

February 17, 2020 Eric Lofgren 2

These challenges can be met. But the concept still requires a major feat. Congress must amend the budget process so that relatively big dollars can […]

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Budget reform reference guide

February 8, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

For years, I’ve been arguing that the budget process is the single most important problem of acquisition reform. We still have in place what is […]

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