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GMU Playbook: Reduce risk with modular contracting

September 16, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

In this week’s blog post on Mason GovCon’s acquisition playbook study, we discuss modular contracting for software-intensive systems. The Federal Acquisition Regulation prefers modular contracting […]

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DoD invites setbacks by relying on sequential measures of progress

August 20, 2021 Eric Lofgren 1

Systems engineering techniques themselves contribute to disaster because they all are paper techniques and there are only two instead of N dimensions available. What we […]

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Podcast: The political-economy of defense with Russell Rumbaugh

August 10, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

I was pleased to have Russell Rumbaugh join me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss some of the most fundamental issues facing defense management. […]

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Systems engineering isn’t a substitute for talent and capability

February 18, 2021 Eric Lofgren 1

I believe that the fundamental difficulty is that we have all gotten so entranced with the technique that we think entirely in terms of procedures, […]

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How should cost estimators respond to rapid acquisition?

January 7, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

As the Department of Defense keeps up the pressure on rapid acquisition, all functional areas are wondering how they can best support the policies. Cost […]

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What causes of corporate welfare in the defense industry?

February 11, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

In a previous post, I discussed how it is critical to separate the idea of corporate welfare from efficient organizational design. In this post, I […]

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The myth of PERT: all the decisions have been made

February 9, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Mr. Holifield…. If we can find some way of doing the preliminary work and clarifying the type of project that you are going to want… […]

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