Cross the Valley of Death with Confidence

Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting Crossing the Valley of Death is a common phrase in DoD whereby many promising science and technology research projects fail to be integrated...

Think Portfolios, Not Programs

Accelerate Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting Think Portfolios, Not Programs The program execution landscape is changing at the senior leader levels.  Program Managers need to...

Delegate Decision Authorities

Accelerate Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting SCO’s [DoD’s Strategic Capabilities Office] secret is fairly simple: empowering program managers with design tradespace,...

Own the Technical Baseline

Accelerate Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisitions (SAF/AQ) created the Owning the Technical Baseline (OTB) initiative to...

Make a Broad Agency Announcement

Accelerate Accelerate Home Accelerate Culture Accelerate Requirements Accelerate System Design Accelerate Execution Accelerate Contracting A BAA is a notice from the government that requests scientific or research proposals from private firms and/or educational...