Disrupting Acquisition Blog
Oversight, Delegation, and Assuming Responsibility
Do we empower experienced leaders to make decisions, learn, and succeed or are they just another cog in the bureaucracy?
Federal Acquisition Regulation Through the Equity Lens
What brilliant solutions never make it to the Acquisition table because we don’t realize we’re putting up barriers, whether physical, economic, or social?
Incentivizing Emerging Technologies in Contracts
Emerging technologies aren’t just for the future. Contracting Officers can incentivize industry and academia to use them on Government contracts now and speed up their journey into the mainstream.
The Problem with Other Transactions and System Integration
When using Other Transactions for Prototype that might evolve to a follow-on that must include system integration, think far ahead of any problems, all the way back to the beginning of the acquisition strategy.
What’s Wrong with Making Contracting Shops Compete?
Competing buying offices can be a Program Manager’s fantasy and a Contracting Officer’s nightmare. Making buying offices compete to take on new work will never work without one thing: manpower.
We Don’t Need Another Hero
Want to figure out if your organization is broken? Look at the employees you hold up as heroes and why.
Leaders Intend but Workforce Interprets
Leaders make policy with certain intentions, but will the workforce interpret it as intended? How can a leader help the workforce better understand the intent?
Understanding the (Not So) Obvious
Even if you think you understand the other person and what they need, you may not know that you see the subject entirely differently and if you don’t know that, you won’t have a meeting of the minds.
Mountains in the Stream
Tired of swimming upstream in Acquisition? Fortunately, there’s another way to get there.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are those of the authors only and do not represent the positions of the MITRE Corporation or its sponsors.
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