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All that acquisition reform, and scaling programs still looks like the old system

December 21, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

When we think of alternative acquisition, that tends to be other-transaction authority and middle-tier acquisition.   For [Jonathan] Etherton, these prototyping mechanisms amount to a […]

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How financial planning came to rule the Pentagon

December 31, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Here is the estimable Frederick Mosher in his 1954 classic discussing the rise of the program budget. A programmed budget, of course, is when money […]

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