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F-35 Program Manager says DoD must avoid past mistakes, own the technical baseline

June 7, 2022 Eric Lofgren 5

This is perhaps the most interesting part from the April 2022 HASC hearing on F-35 sustainment. Representative Waltz asked Lt. Gen. Eric Fick, PEO for […]

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GMU Playbook: Reduce risk with modular contracting

September 16, 2021 Eric Lofgren 0

In this week’s blog post on Mason GovCon’s acquisition playbook study, we discuss modular contracting for software-intensive systems. The Federal Acquisition Regulation prefers modular contracting […]

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What ever happened to the DoD’s Better Buying Power?

October 31, 2020 Eric Lofgren 2

Here is Steve Grundman discussing Ash Carter’s Better Buying Power rollout: “… the term incentives is this campaign’s refrain, appearing 13 times in the document […]

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