Do defense decisions require more strategic planning?
Here’s a slice from Henry Mintzberg’s excellent 1994 book, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning. His basic argument is that staff planners, who use […]
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Air Force’s NGAD needs to be a “team of systems,” not a “family of systems”
I recently blogged about the family of systems concept for the Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. NGAD is envisioned to be more […]
Should organization follow programs, or the other way around? Issues in PPBE reform
The main points which will be stressed in the succeeding paragraphs are: first, that PPBS has been and is being oversold and, in some ways, […]
Space Force acquisition reorg moves in the right direction
Following a 90-day review, the head of Space Systems Command Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein proposed a new structure built around five program executive offices: Assured Access […]
The Functionalist Takeover and the problem of organizational design in the DoD
[Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy] told the Senate Committee on Armed Services that the present assistant secretary could not “give orders.” McElroy proposed a civilian […]