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Can defense acquisition become highly reliable? Yes! Just add redundancy.

April 7, 2022 Eric Lofgren 1

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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Highlights from Defense Innovation Unit’s 2021 annual report

February 1, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

Here are some excerpts from the Defense Innovation Unit 2021 annual report (I compiled the table below for your reading ease): In fiscal year (FY) […]

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Could there be a SpaceX-style entrant in the world of fighter aircraft?

October 1, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Such joint efforts and the use of digital engineering could allow smaller defense firms to focus on design work, whether for the whole aircraft of […]

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The value of NASA contracts to SpaceX for launch

May 16, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Again if you’ll compare the amounts Space[X] is receiving vs values to other launch providers for similar goals — they are always on the low […]

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