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 | Nov 15, 2022 | Agile, Bureaucracy, Innovation
Disrupting Acquisition Blog DoD’s Lack of Agility is a National Security Risk Flexibility is the key to airpower. Speed and agility are the keys to national security. Yet the DoD lacks the agility to be responsive to change in this dynamic national security...
by petemodi | Oct 17, 2022 | Bureaucracy, Innovation, Policy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog DOD Needs a Pilot Shortage No, not the warriors who fly aircraft into combat, DoD needs many, many more of them. What I’m talking about is pilot programs where a set of programs experiment with a new approach. The DoD bureaucracy is...
by petemodi | Mar 17, 2022 | Bureaucracy, Innovation, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Program Side of the Valley of Death The DoD’s Valley of Death continues to be a major issue as it struggles to rapidly exploit leading defense and commercial technologies for the next generation of military capabilities. The future of...
by petemodi | Mar 2, 2022 | Bureaucracy, Innovation, NDAA
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Flournoy: The Pentagon and Congress Need to Do More Michele Flournoy was scheduled to testify in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) this week on Global Security Challenges and Strategy, yet couldn’t make it as she was...
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...
