by ltedder | Oct 8, 2019 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Middle Tier of Acquisition in 1991—and Why It Matters Today Everyone seems a little frantic to figure out Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) as well as non-FAR-based Other Transactions because we all know you can’t go fast with the FAR and...
by ltedder | Oct 1, 2019 | Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Increasingly Urgent Car Wreck You might not think that a properly documented and truly urgent requirement would get questioned—or even denied—by staff reviewers, but it does happen and for the oddest reason: the passage of time, the...
by ltedder | Sep 24, 2019 | Contracting
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Turning Fiscal Year End Moans into Better Plans It’s 11 PM on Fiscal Year Eve. Do you know where your contracts are? It’s just as well. If you work for the Department of Defense, you probably won’t be reading this until the next fiscal year...
by ltedder | Sep 16, 2019 | Contracting
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Dr. Griffin Can Procure More of His Christmas List! The Department of Defense now has a new authority to rapidly acquire 5G, apps, cyber, phones, IoT, satellites, cloud, encryption, AR/VR, AI, robotics, and autonomy. Expansion of a...
by ltedder | Sep 10, 2019 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Training in Caves, Not Silos As an acquisition professional, I wasn’t trained in a silo: I was trained in a cave. I got all the right certifications and then some, yet only now do I understand how much I missed—and how little I understood...
