by Pete Modigliani | Sep 16, 2021 | Design, Digital
Disrupting Acquisition Blog DoD Mission Engineering and NFL Football The NFL is back in action, and millions of Americans are excited about the upcoming season! Typically, when reading a business book, I tie it to DoD acquisitions in a blog post. How can we tie...
by Pete Modigliani | Aug 31, 2021 | Accelerate, Mindset, Policy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Pentagon Has Too Many Hall Monitors In the next few years, if (when?) we lose a major conflict with a near-peer adversary and the American people seek to understand how this happened, a comprehensive assessment will identify one of the...
by dbward@mitre.org | Aug 27, 2021 | Accelerate, Accelerate, Blog, Execution, Innovation, Rapid Acquisition
The sun was setting as my buddy Ryan and I finished building our survival shelter, one of our last requirements to earn the Wilderness Survival merit badge. Well, I assumed the sun was setting. The thick forest around us and even thicker rain clouds above made it hard...
by Pete Modigliani | Jul 6, 2021 | Mindset, Policy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog New Acquisition Titles In reading a recent CNAS article on AI, Paul Scharre referenced Will Roper as the former “Chief Acquisition Officer for the U.S. Air Force”. I immediately thought CAO has a much better ring to it than Air Force...
by Pete Modigliani | May 20, 2021 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Oversight, Delegation, and Assuming Responsibility “The U.S. Air Force must work differently with other DoD stakeholders, Congress, and both traditional and emerging industry partners to streamline processes and incentivize intelligent...
by ltedder | May 18, 2021 | Policy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Federal Acquisition Regulation Through the Equity Lens Inequity: A lack of fairness or justice. Can be revealed by disparate and/or disproportionate outcomes experienced by different groups. — MITRE Equity Assessment Framework The...
