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There’s no free lunch in DoD organizational design

January 29, 2021 Eric Lofgren 2

When Burke became chief of naval operations, the conflict between the Bureau of Ordnance and the Bureau of Aeronautics in the guided missile field, under […]

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Program offices may face hard choices with Air Force Ventures

February 22, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Here is Air Force acquisition chief William Roper talking at an Ask Me Anything webinar. He was discussing the pitch day events, which starts at […]

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How SpaceX does software for 9 vehicles with only 50 developers — and gov’t requiring 50x the staff

November 21, 2019 Eric Lofgren 2

The biggest gap in the government today is enterprise services. You go to big companies, they have infrastructure cloud team, they have a platform team, […]

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A discussion on program office organization

January 5, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Following up on the podcast, here’s a bonus Q&A with the gracious Victor Deal: Eric: During the podcast, you said: “There’s this sense that perhaps […]

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