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Podcast: Problem areas in small business set-asides with Amanda & Alex Bresler

June 16, 2022 Eric Lofgren 0

I was pleased to have Amanda Bresler and Alex Bresler back on the podcast to discuss their newest Naval Postgraduate School symposium paper on the […]

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Podcast: What’s the price of an AI/ML product?

July 6, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

As firms are finding out, the unit economics of AI/ML is not exactly like software. It requires more manual manipulation of data than one might […]

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Podcast: Revamping the way we think about defense with Steve Blank

June 15, 2020 Eric Lofgren 2

Steve Blank joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the urgency of defense innovation in a world of authoritarian peer competitors. Steve is […]

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Government and the institutional memory of failure

August 15, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

I think that large, established organizations operate according to different incentives than start-ups. Large organizations focus on the downside of new initiatives. In the start-up […]

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