Podcast: Commercial space, venture, and DoD with Jordan Noone and Jenna Bryant
I was pleased to have Jordan Noone and Jenna Bryant on the Acquisition Talk podcast to talk about how commercial companies in space and deep […]
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Space Force doubles down on budget portfolios, but must think carefully about the structure
“One of the things that we’re trying to do out of our office is to think about: How would we manage by portfolio as opposed […]
Space Force harkens back to an old way of organizing for acquisition
Through the end of the 1940s, the Air Materiel Command had assigned two “project officers”—one for development and one for production—to monitor each system’s acquisition. […]
Gov’t funding is short-term, project-based, risk-averse, and prone to groupthink
One hypothesis I’d like to investigate is that we’ve gotten a little too centralized and monolithic in our funding. That is something to address. The […]
Special Event: Virtual Session on Budget Reform (Jun. 29 @ 1pm EST)
Please join me and Matt MacGregor for a virtual session hosted by the NatSecGirlSquad on the topic of budget reform. Here’s a quick synopsis: The […]
Here’s a better way for the Space Force to be financially agile
When Roper was in charge of the Strategic Capabilities Office he had the ability to move money between programs in a way that allowed him […]
Podcast: Agents of Innovation with John Kuehn
In this episode of Acquisition Talk, I speak with Dr. John Kuehn. He is a professor of military history at the Army Command and General […]
Will Space Corps/Force will have its own acquisition executive?
The Senate NDAA would break up the office of the top Air Force acquisition executive and create a new position of principal assistant to the […]
Podcast: Todd Harrison on the military space reorg. and everything else
Todd Harrison joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss a wide range of issues, including how the reorganization of defense space forces is […]
Military services are about creating cultures
Military services are about creating cultures. They’re about creating the people who are dedicated to supporting specific warfighting domains, and those cultures permeate everything in […]
How the Space Corps reorg is shaping up
Will the Space Force or Space Corps — whatever Congress decides to call it — legally count as a new armed service? creating a new organization for space […]
Implications of the Space Development Agency
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on Tuesday [March 12, 2019] officially established the Space Development Agency as a separate organization within the Department of Defense […]
Sunday Links
Links on the A-10 Warthog, the F-35, Space Force, the Pentagon audit, and France’s missile performance.Links on the A-10 Warthog, the F-35, Space Force, the Pentagon audit, and France’s
Space Force: what’s the organizational design?
The Space Development Agency, which would be a joint procurement arm in charge of setting standards and avoiding the duplication on space technology, appears to […]