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Navy’s plan for managing it’s family of autonomous maritime systems

August 3, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

The Rapid Autonomy Integration Lab (RAIL) is an effort out of the service’s unmanned maritime systems program office… “The vision for the RAIL is that […]

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Government and the institutional memory of failure

August 15, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

I think that large, established organizations operate according to different incentives than start-ups. Large organizations focus on the downside of new initiatives. In the start-up […]

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Mark Mandeles on system design principles

February 5, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

In this episode of Acquisition Talk, I speak with Mark Mandeles about a wide range of topics in defense management. Mark has had a fascinating career […]

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