China iterates twice as fast through military development and fielding cycles
In 2018, Mike Griffin, the first Under Secretary for Research and Engineering, disclosed an innovation time comparison that it takes the US on average sixteen […]
program budgeting
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 […]
Zuckerberg wisely advocates big bets on tools and people, not outputs
The government is the largest and most important funder of science, but the grants tend to be very spread out across a lot of people. […]
Why managers pad budgets and build empires: the law of anticipated reactions
To some extent, the strength and security of an organization is associated with its size, the rank of its personnel, and the amount of funds […]
Information is not transformation
Here are excerpts from Allen Schick’s excellent study on the performance budget (PB), also known as the program budget or the Planning-Programming-Budgeting (PPB) system. Remember, […]
The inflation slushfund
In analyzing DOD’s inflation budgeting system, we found that between fiscal years 1982 and 1986 the administration budgeted more than was needed to cover inflation, […]
More on how gov’t can best support AI research
Here is an excerpt from my recent War on the Rocks article, responding the call for ideas from the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence […]