SpaceX’s speed to market is fast and getting faster. NASA… not so much.
Here’s the excellent Bent Flyvbjerg and Atif Ansar’s latest article, Speed-to-Market for SpaceX and NASA. Note that the efforts tracked by Bent include Falcon 1, […]
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SpaceX’s platform-based strategy beats bespoke requirements
Bent Flyvgjberg and Atif Ansar have a new article providing evidence that SpaceX projects outperform historical and contemporary competitors by using a platform approach. The […]
DoD needs to rebuild competency in hypersonic flight test
We need to move rapidly toward weaponization of hypersonics. We have already demonstrated that we have the technical understanding to address both the challenges of […]
GAO: To keep up with surging Congressional reporting, DoD should modernize
The Department of Defense is required to report to Congress on an array of national security topics each year. The number of new reporting requirements […]
Did SpaceX and Palantir transform government contracting? A VC’s view
The DoD is starting to run commercial-like procurement processes as opposed to purely cost-plus contracting. In traditional government contracting, the government comes up with a […]
Why are analysts complicit in cost and schedule growth?
I showed that for 10 projects for which a cost risk analysis had been conducted, the actual cost was greater than the 90th percentile for […]
NASA sets a model using high-level requirements and letting private companies innovate
The cost-saving success of @Commercial_Crew is based on @NASA establishing high-level requirements and letting private companies innovate. For the Artemis Moon base, NASA will establish […]
How cost-plus contracting slowed space technologies, and the shift back to mission-based specs
It starts back in the 1960s with the Apollo program being successful. The way that space used to work back then was that everything was […]
The value of NASA contracts to SpaceX for launch
Again if you’ll compare the amounts Space[X] is receiving vs values to other launch providers for similar goals — they are always on the low […]