Will inflation cause a $110 billion loss in DoD buying power between FY21-FY23?
A new paper from recent AcqTalk guest John Whitley and two PPBE Reform commissioners David Norquist and Lisa Disbrow has been released: “How Inflation Hurts […]
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Has Congress descended from oversight to micromanagement?
Here’s a slice from a conversation between Peter Levine, Bob Work, and Susanna Blume on Peter’s recent book: Defense Management Reform. Bob Work: I do […]
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 […]
Here are the first picks on the PPBE Reform Commission
There seems to be broad agreement among most stakeholders the US needs “better, faster, affordable” development and acquisition of emerging technologies that will drive competitive […]
All that acquisition reform, and scaling programs still looks like the old system
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 […]
Special economic zones and PPBE reform for the Department of Defense
It is one of history’s great ironies that a major factor in defeating Soviet communism was one of the largest centrally planned economies in the […]
There isn’t enough freedom for our program managers, HASC Chair Adam Smith says
When we’re looking at regulating how we do these contracts with the programs of record, it’s too much in a box. There isn’t enough freedom […]
Congress has a bold vision for Navy subsystem prototyping, but here’s what they’re missing
As the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has documented, lead ships in new classes of naval vessels routinely fail to meet expectations… It was not always this […]
Special Event: Virtual Session on Budget Reform (Jun. 29 @ 1pm EST)
Please join me and Matt MacGregor for a virtual session hosted by the NatSecGirlSquad on the topic of budget reform. Here’s a quick synopsis: The […]
The last frontier of acquisition reform
I think the Pentagon is going to look in the long term to the last frontier of acquisition reform, which is the budget process. One […]