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Podcast: PPBE Reform with Ellen Lord and Michael Brown

November 23, 2022 Eric Lofgren 2

Ellen Lord and Michael Brown joined me at the 2022 Conference hosted by George Mason University and Defense Acquisition University to discuss PPBE Reform. Ellen […]

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Does the United States military look like Russia’s?

May 24, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s the excellent Steve Blank on the War on the Rocks podcast: We’re recording this in the middle of the battle for Ukraine, and I […]

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Defense management is killing competition

January 7, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

The genius of the capitalist system is that it has no pretensions about prediction: It does not preselect winners and losers but instead facilitates competition […]

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Difference between operations research and systems analysis — one is much harder!

July 22, 2020 Eric Lofgren 1

Since operations research deals with optimization problems in which criteria, alternatives, and other parameters are given, in a sense, the solution to the problem lies […]

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