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Podcast: New approaches to intellectual property with Babak Siavoshy

May 31, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Babak Siavoshy joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss opportunities for improving intellectual property and software data rights practices in defense contracts. He […]

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Podcast: Commercial item acquisition with Phil Jasper

September 15, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

I was pleased to have Phil Jasper, Mission Systems President at Collins Aerospace, join me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss commercial item acquisition. […]

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Growth of contract regulations

March 14, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In 1947, the “Bible” of the nation’s military contractors—Armed Forces Procurement Regulation—was a slim volume of about 100 to 125 pages long. Today, the A.F.P.R., […]

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Podcast: All about Other Transactions Authority with Richard Dunn

February 18, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

In this episode of the Acquisition Talk podcast, I speak with Richard Dunn about commercial contracting, and in particular, Other Transactions Authority (OTAs). He is […]

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Why are OTAs plagued by references to FAR clauses?

January 9, 2020 Eric Lofgren 1

One of the biggest failures of FAR 12 [commercial] contracting has been DoD’s unwillingness to proactively use these commercial of a type procedures because of […]

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Time to award a defense contract and the growth of regulation

October 30, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

In 1947, the “Bible” of the nation’s military contractors—Armed Forces Procurement Regulation—was a slim volume of about 100 to 125 pages long. Today, the A.F.P.R., […]

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Making the FAR sing isn’t enough — no one can be expert in all applicable laws, regs

October 21, 2019 Eric Lofgren 3

The cost to the taxpayer of attempting to eliminate all risk is prohibitive. The Executive Branch will accept and manage the risk associated with empowering […]

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What are consumption-based solutions?

May 8, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Volume 3 of the 809 Panel’s report takes on many of the problems of IT procurement. “Recommendation 43” focuses directly on the issue of consumption-based […]

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