Acquisition Talk

A daily blog on weapon systems acquisition

  • Home
  • Blog Posts
  • Podcast
  • PPBE Reform
  • About
  • Resources
    • Reading List
    • Links
    • Papers
    • Top Posts
    • AFWERX data
  • Contact

KC-46A

NASA’s administrator says cost-plus is a “plague,” just as DoD is giving up on fixed-price development

June 24, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s an article about NASA’s administrator Bill Nelson in ArsTechnica, NASA chief says cost-plus contracts are a “plague” on the space agency. Nelson was asked […]

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • Twitter

We can have competition in the most expensive weapons

June 13, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

I think it is terribly important, that the Department of Defense always have the option to buy something else… they should keep their options open… […]

Share this:

  • Print
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • Twitter

Get posts by email

Search

Featured

  • The Pentagon’s “innovation tourism” problem isn’t what you might think
  • How should government own the technical baseline?
  • Senate leaders call for more predictability in shipbuilding, but is that the wrong lever?
  • How has DIU performed in transitioning technologies?
  • Podcast: Getting more for our defense dollars with Fred Bartels and Philip Candreva
  • How Saab uses agile principles to develop the Gripen fighter
  • Are we overthinking the DoD’s valley of death problem?

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: A valid URL was not provided.

Copyright © 2025 | WordPress Theme by MH Themes