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PPBE’s negative impact on innovation also extends to contracting

May 3, 2022 Eric Lofgren 1

Here’s a slice from my new article in the May 2022 edition of NCMA’s Contract Management Magazine, How Defense Budgeting Stymies Innovation (gated). Iteration and […]

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DoD should control R&D programs incrementally, not through lifecycle controls predicted up-front

August 22, 2020 Eric Lofgren 0

Policy is not made once and for all; it is made and re-made endlessly. Policy-making is a process of successive approximation to some desired objectives […]

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