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Is the Air Force heading back to paralysis by analysis in weapons choice?

March 22, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall quoted in a recent Space News article, speaking about problems in current acquisition: “Overall, we start more […]

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Why Raytheon and UTC don’t want to build weapons platforms

June 17, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Neither company [Raytheon nor UTC] works as a platform producer, eschewing the production of aircraft or ground vehicles and instead focusing on the technology that […]

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How Google Works: acquisition review (part 1)

December 13, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

The book How Google Works, by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, offers many insights in a post-industrial (or post-corporate) world. I’ll discuss the book’s ideas […]

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