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DoD is failing on the three E’s: experimentation, evaluation, and evolution

February 18, 2022 Eric Lofgren 2

Here is the Director of Defense Research & Engineering Harold Brown in 1962, discussing how he has responsibility for all R&E activities in DoD since […]

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Inflationary lessons for the Department of Defense

December 30, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s Friedrich Hayek discussing the negative consequences of economist’s presumption that they can control macroeconomic outcomes — from his 1974 Nobel prize speech The Pretense […]

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OSD’s data-driven oversight of the military services and an alternative path forward

May 25, 2021 Eric Lofgren 1

GAO’s Shelby Oakley: I think the biggest thing that I see right now that is a challenge for Ms. Cummings’ office is their ability to, […]

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The market as a discovery procedure

March 11, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

They had a healthfully vague understanding that the dynamic competition which is always at work in free markets. It continually inspires market movements, movements in […]

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