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Is DoD starting to bridge the valley of death?

September 17, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

… funding for Advanced Components Development and Prototypes (6.4 funding) has increased from 20.4% of total RDT&E funding in 2012 to 30.2% in the enacted […]

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Government in-house talent and the Bell Report of 1962

April 8, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

[Budget Director David Bell’s] report of April 1962 recommended continuing a heavy reliance on private contractors. The government, however, needed enough in-house competence so that […]

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