Here is David Soergel, an industry consultant testifying to Congress in the 1975 hearing, “Major Systems Acquisition.” Sometimes new technology can offer solutions to problems […]
We’ve been wrestling with information as a medium for negative feedback ever since Norbert Wiener published Cybernetics in 1949, and Wiener himself had been thinking […]
I’m going to walk though some an excellent set of slides on the “valley of death” problem from Gary Hagan over at DAU. Let’s start […]
We realized it was time to stop the heel-to-toe acquisition process of developing a concept and then going to Combats Development to develop a requirement, […]
Software is very different. It’s not, “I’m going to do a new mode of production that’s going to do more with less.” It’s, “I’m going […]
We join an interesting conversation between Mr. Battista, a Pentagon watchdog and test advocate, and Representative Sheley. They are discussing the recent roll-out of OMB […]
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 […]
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