Podcast: No time to waste for defense innovation with BMNT’s Pete Newell
I was pleased to have Pete Newell back on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the urgency of getting innovative defense prototypes into the field […]
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The need to rebalance DoD spending toward Procurement to deter China
The excellent Pete Modigliani had an interesting post recently on the proportion of RDT&E and Procurement in defense budgets. In the 1980s, Procurement was nearly […]
USD R&E unveils a new Office of Strategic Capital
USD R&E has created a new Office of Strategic Capital (OSC), which will be led by former Acquisition Talk podcast guest Jason Rathje. Jason was […]
Founder vs. Inheritance and other deep problems of DoD innovation
Here are some slices from an epic podcast with Balaji Srinivasan and Lex Fridman: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA. The US […]
Podcast: Military uses of AI/ML in China and the United States
In this cross-over episode of the Acquisition Talk and China Talk podcasts, we have Greg Allen on to discuss progress in AI/ML, the military, China, […]
Podcast: What it takes in acquisition to deter China
A new paper from MITRE takes an end-to-end look at how military strategy gets translated into the types of weapon systems actually bought through the […]
Getting the facts confused on commercial items
Foe to monopolist power Matt Stoller provides some comments on acquisition policies in Nancy Pelosi, China, and the Slow Decline of the US Military. He […]
DoD’s requirements process falling short: The case of explosive materials
Michienzi said the U.S. industrial base does not have the surge capacity to replenish munitions stocks quickly, and one of the constraints is the production […]
How the China narrative may be changing
Right now, there’s this strong narrative that China’s government can do no wrong. China is unstoppable juggernaut. This view is about eight years out of […]
Probability of a ballistic missile salvo hitting US Navy surface ships
On a recent Midrats podcast episode, Gerry Doyle and Blake Herzinger discuss the likelihood of a Chinese ballistic missile like the DF-21 successfully hitting a […]
Takeaways from the Navy’s revised (again) 30-year shipbuilding plan
The new Navy 30-year shipbuilding plan released April 18. Here’s an overview from Navy Times. Interestingly enough, the 30 year shipbuilding plan not only gets […]
Report on China’s defense S&T key labs
Here’s a nice report from the China Aerospace Studies Institute on China’s Defense S&T Key Labs (DSTKLs). Lots of charts throughout. A fair number of […]
How should the Navy hedge their bets if carriers prove vulnerable?
Today the Navy has aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants, aircraft, and sensors under the sea and in space. Our plan to counter to China can […]
Does the US still have 50% of major warships, and thus command of the sea?
Command of the sea was defined as concentration of naval power, in which one nation possessed roughly 50 percent of the total relevant warships owned […]
What does the 20-year delivery on the AUKUS deal say about US power?
Here’s one perhaps relevant portion of an incredibly interesting discussion between Balaji Srinivasan and Tim Ferriss. Balaji remarks that the AUKUS deal in which the […]