by petemodi | Dec 15, 2021 | NDAA, Policy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog CAEs Must Provide Congress Their Naughty and Nice List Ever ask a parent which child is their favorite and which they like the least? Silly question, right. Most parents would say, at least in front of their kids, “I love all my kids...
by ltedder | Dec 7, 2021 | Equity
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Limiting Beliefs in Acquisition and Life “Midway along the journey of our life,I woke to find myself in a dark wood,for I had wandered off from the straight path.…But if I would show the good that came of it,I must talk about things other...
by petemodi | Sep 16, 2021 | Design, Digital, Engineering
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 petemodi | Aug 31, 2021 | Accelerate, Bureaucracy, 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 petemodi | 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...
