Can defense acquisition become highly reliable? Yes! Just add redundancy.
Is it possible to take a set of individually unreliable units and form them into a system “with any arbitrarily high reliability”? Can we, in […]
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DoD’s attempt at rational calculus may be the height of folly
It is, therefore, an obvious and “rational calculus” to employ a pragmatic and experimental procedure – that is, a policy of redundancy which permits several, […]
The Manhattan Project did not follow so-called “best practices” for management
This characterization of the roots of PM [project management] represents a certain irony: the Manhattan Project did not even remotely correspond to the “standard practice” […]
Do intangibles lead to a productivity divergence?
When intangibles hardly matter, then capital and labor ought to be about equally productive across all firms. When intangibles matter a lot, then productivity differences will widen. What does this mean for defense organization?
Counterarguments to Acquisition Reform
I’m happy to announce that I’m an Emergent Ventures fellow! I start with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University on October 22. My venture […]