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 […]
organizational budget
JAIC director Shanahan on how to build trust with Congress
I have struggled with this at the JAIC going up to the Hill and saying, ‘You know, you’re asking for a level of detail in […]
Has program budgeting failed the world over?
Program budgeting does not work anywhere in the world it has been tried. The reason for this failure can be deduced backward. What would it […]
The more things change, acquisition reform remains the same
History offers little to suggest that today’s acquisition reform will succeed where its predecessor efforts failed… Behavioral change is needed to effect any transformation. Acquisition […]
Army acquisition and the Goldwater-Nichols Act
In 1986, the President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission) published A Quest for Excellence, Final Report to the President. Subsequently, National Security […]