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Can you pass the “Ships Test?” Issues of defense requirements

January 6, 2023 Eric Lofgren 0

Here’s an interesting slice of Lockheed Martin’s Inside Skunk Works podcast on something called the “ships” test: The bottom line is don’t add rules that […]

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Federal contractors don’t know which decade they’re in for software development — “We’ve got to change the game”

August 4, 2022 Eric Lofgren 1

Here’s slices from a good discussion at the Aspen Security Forum with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and chief of naval research Admiral Lorin Selby. Hoffman […]

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Cutting contract documentation by 90+ percent

February 3, 2022 Eric Lofgren 1

Here is Air Force general Chapman at a 1971 appropriations supplemental hearing with DepSecDef David Packard, asking for additional funds to do prototyping including funds […]

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IP and CMMC — two issues that could derail defense innovation efforts

August 19, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

… there are two thorny issues that need to be effectively addressed on this innovation journey: intellectual property (IP) and security. Both issues have seen […]

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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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Must contractors build an internal program office to comply with CMMC?

December 12, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Richard Beutel: The feedback were getting from the companies is that the DOD is pushing a lot of the administrative and policy development back on […]

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Time to award a defense contract and the growth of regulation

October 30, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

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., […]

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