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Can defense acquisition become highly reliable? Yes! Just add redundancy.

April 7, 2022 Eric Lofgren 1

Is it possible to take a set of individually unreliable units and form them into a system “with any arbitrarily high reliability”? Can we, in […]

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ULA mostly advocates for the status quo regulations in launch

November 30, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

ULA enjoys a good working relationship with the FAA and addresses licensing issues with the agency in real-time… The FAA is doing an excellent job […]

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How cost-plus contracting slowed space technologies, and the shift back to mission-based specs

November 11, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

It starts back in the 1960s with the Apollo program being successful. The way that space used to work back then was that everything was […]

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