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Manhattan Project

Podcast: Affecting the strategic calculus with Michele Flournoy

March 23, 2021 Eric Lofgren 2

Michele Flournoy joined Jordan Schneider and I on a crossover episode of the China Talk and Acquisition Talk podcasts. She is a former Undersecretary of […]

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The Manhattan Project did not follow so-called “best practices” for management

October 22, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

This characterization of the roots of PM [project management] represents a certain irony: the Manhattan Project did not even remotely correspond to the “standard practice” […]

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Will Thomas on the history and sciences of R&D policy

October 8, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

I was pleased to speak with Will Thomas on the Acquisition Talk podcast. He is a senior science policy analyst at the American Institute of […]

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