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Hondo Geurts

How weapons become overoptimized to the point they become brittle

March 9, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Here is Roland McKean, one of the founders of the DoD’s Planning-Programming-Budgeting system, who later in the 1960s saw the errors of what he helped […]

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The state of defense acquisition as 2021 draws to a close

December 24, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Previously, I discussed the messaging from the Reagan National Defense Forum that “Time is running out with Silicon Valley.” It was intimated that major acquisition […]

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