Gresham’s Law of Programming
Here’s a slice from the excellent Mark Mandeles’ book, The Development of the B-52 and Jet Propulsion. Between 1919 and 1926, the technical staff at […]
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Is Congress ready to rethink DoD oversight?
Dan Patt: Yeah. Speaking of a fresh look, we found it fascinating that in your report, you recommend changes to the budget and appropriations process to […]
Government and the institutional memory of failure
I think that large, established organizations operate according to different incentives than start-ups. Large organizations focus on the downside of new initiatives. In the start-up […]
What can we learn from Eric Schmidt and apply to defense acquisition?
Xerox PARC came out of a similar structure [as Bell Labs]. Xerox at the time was a structural monopoly and not a legal one because […]