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Consortia-based OTAs larger, but slower growing than stand-alone OTA

September 27, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

The same day I dropped the podcast on Stephanie Halcrow and Moshe Schwartz’s event on industry consortia, the GAO released its own report Other Transaction […]

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Progress in Skyborg and what’s holding back hardware

February 11, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

Mike Atwood (General Atomics): We’re really excited to see the formation of the Vanguard programs and realize his vision. The challenge we’ve had is though […]

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Why the Army ditched its organic design for OMFV

December 30, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

The Army’s decision to not submit its own design bid for the restarted Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV) prototype competition was to remove concerns over […]

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DARPA’s organization and approach to innovation

February 10, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Below are the DARPA’s current technical offices: Biological Technologies Office (BTO) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) Information Innovation Office (I2O) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Strategic Technology […]

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The disease of restricting competition isn’t limited to Europe

December 28, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

I have been repeatedly impressed in putting this paper together by how often unexpected and great discoveries and progress came about during or as the […]

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What are they not telling us about Navy experimental exercises?

February 25, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

The Navy and Marine Corps are continuing a series of exercises to understand what technologies and tactics the services need to rapidly develop to fight […]

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