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More inklings that OSD will be taking power back from the services

January 11, 2020 Eric Lofgren 5

For the past few years, acquisition reform has brought with it a delegation of decisions from the Office of the Secretary of Defense down to […]

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Podcast: Andrew Hunter on software-defined, hardware-based adaptable systems

November 25, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Andrew Hunter, director of the defense-industrial group at CSIS, joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss a set of papers on adaptable systems, […]

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Loose cultures, tight cultures, and the USD(AT&L) break up

November 5, 2019 Eric Lofgren 2

Loose cultures have a great benefit in terms of creating ideas but they’re not necessarily great at implementing them. So you think of innovation, it […]

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Implications of the Space Development Agency

March 14, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on Tuesday [March 12, 2019] officially established the Space Development Agency as a separate organization within the Department of Defense […]

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