The state of blockchain in defense tech
The Committee is aware that distributed ledger technologies, such as blockchain, may have potentially useful applications for the Department of Defense, which include but are […]
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The DoD acquisition is deterministic — it needs an overhaul
One of the things that the Department has an issue with is putting something out there really fast and really bad just because we need […]
DoD should control R&D programs incrementally, not through lifecycle controls predicted up-front
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 […]
Podcast: Andrew Hunter on software-defined, hardware-based adaptable systems
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, […]
Loose cultures, tight cultures, and the USD(AT&L) break up
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 […]
Air Force vanguard programs — can they solve the transition problem?
Guided by strategic capabilities, this [transformational S&T] component will include a focused set of research programs called vanguards. Vanguard programs will advance emerging weapon systems […]
Pitch an AI project in 99 words
The Pentagon’s year-old Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is giving all comers until July 26th to submit proposals for cyber and information warfare. Companies whose ideas catch JAIC’s eye […]
Implications of the Space Development Agency
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 […]
Only the highly efficient can burden inefficient processes
“It is a good thing that we are a rich country, because poorer countries just could not afford to waste this kind of money,” the […]