by petemodi | Dec 19, 2022 | Accelerate, Agile, Bureaucracy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Enabling Speed and Agility in DoD This is the second part of a two-part post. In the first post, DoD’s Lack of Agility is a National Security Risk, I assessed DoD as poor on most of the eight factors Gallup found to be key for...
by petemodi | Oct 4, 2022 | Accelerate, Innovation, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Five Ways to Deliver Capabilities in the Threat Window What if China decided today was the day they invade Taiwan and in the process launch first strike attacks against Guam and Hawaii? We will be at war with the military we have today. The...
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 | May 22, 2020 | Accelerate, Policy, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Accelerating Space Acquisition The Secretary of the Air Force, Barbara Barrett, in partnership with the US Space Force, submitted a report to Congress on an Alternative Acquisition System for the Space Force. This is a great report that...
by petemodi | May 4, 2020 | Accelerate, Innovation, Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Pentagon Wars 2020: The Return of the Bureaucrats As the United States advances in the Great Power Competition, one thing is certain – the DoD must increase its speed, agility, and innovation. This new era offers greater threats and...
