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Podcast: PPBE Reform Panel 2 — From Ideas to Implementation

April 6, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

In this second discussion on the future of the Planning-Programming-Budgeting-Execution (PPBE) process, Center for Government Contracting executive director Jerry McGinn hosts a distinguished panel including: […]

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If you try to maintain initial trust by covering up mistakes, then you lose trust when they catch you

November 7, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Harry: You say: “If soldiers trust the general, communication will be vastly more efficient.” What are your biggest lessons on how to create an environment […]

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Real costs are defensive effort, risk aversion, lack of initiative, and failed partnernships

September 19, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Opportunism, the pursuit of self-interest by means of duplicity and guile, is a key concept in neo-institutional economics (Williamson, 1967, 1985). It manifests itself in […]

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Lessons from France on fixed-price contracting

June 7, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

There is much to like about how the French do weapon systems acquisition, and we in the US need to pay more attention: In the […]

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