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Packard’s fly-before-you-buy principle

March 30, 2020 Eric Lofgren 2

Perhaps the best way to explain some variations of a practical fly-before-you buy policy is to take several examples. The AX program is one which […]

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Fitzhugh’s take on task partitioning and fly-before-you-buy

October 3, 2019 Eric Lofgren 1

If you break it down into smaller units and you have more contractors in the business… It is not so vital in that situation for […]

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David Packard’s impact on defense acquisition

April 6, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

This paper contends that the study of David Packard, the co-founder of electronics firm giant Hewlett-Packard and one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley, […]

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