Beware of paying for access to gov’t contracts, small businesses
Mike: It’s folks that are probably retired military and you’re like the 3rd or 4th client they’ve had, and you’re like, “hey, let’s pay this […]
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Time to award a defense contract and the growth of regulation
In 1947, the “Bible” of the nation’s military contractors—Armed Forces Procurement Regulation—was a slim volume of about 100 to 125 pages long. Today, the A.F.P.R., […]
Contracts delayed by too many cooks in the kitchen
The larger the acquisition involved, the more people get involved. Just to get the RFP [Request for Proposal] out the door on the government side, […]
Spoon-feeding the military: how industry wins contracts
Here are some good quotes about how defense firms marketed programs to the DOD in the 1960s: For, as one representative remarked, “… the day […]
The upside of capture
In a previous post, I described how Luigi Zingales’ framework of regulatory capture also applies to the defense industry. I will here try to describe […]