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Are multiyear contracts really a super-saver in acquisition?

October 4, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Bill Greenwalt and Mackenzie Eaglen advocate for greater use of multiyear contracting to help solve supply chain troubles and pricing in an inflationary environment. Here’s […]

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Does DoD turn out good product managers?

March 2, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

You mentioned intuition and I think that can be developed too believe it or not. I’ve helped many product managers develop their product sense. How […]

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How the CBO estimates the cost of submarines

July 15, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

To estimate the cost of those future submarines, CBO used data for the ships’ closest analogue—the Virginia class submarines that had already been built. From […]

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John Nash on the virtues of parallel control

June 22, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

The basic idea is simple. Instead of having a single control unit sequencing the operations of the machine in series (except for certain subsidiary operations […]

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