by Pete Modigliani | 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...
by Pete Modigliani | Apr 16, 2020 | Accelerate, Innovation, Policy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Modernizing DoD’s Requirements System The world is accelerating into the future, but the DoD’s requirements system is stuck in the past. The current approach to generating requirements is too slow to produce results when they...
by dbward@mitre.org | Apr 9, 2020 | Agile, Innovation
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Don’t Play Mob Ball, Revisited “Have you ever seen little kids play soccer? Without fail, all the kids on the field mob the ball as soon as the whistle blows. It’s the only thing they focus on, despite what their coaches told them about...
by dbward@mitre.org | Apr 1, 2020 | Innovation, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog JTRS: A Cautionary Tale For Today A version of this post originally appeared in National Defense Magazine in 2012. It has been edited and updated. In a January 2012 article titled Failure To Communicate, published on the Center For Public...
by ltedder | Mar 23, 2020 | Innovation
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Game-Changer We’ve Been Expecting Isn’t a Technology “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” ― Fred Rogers We...
by Pete Modigliani | Jan 23, 2020 | Innovation, Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Pentagon’s Missing Whiteboards One day as I sat in a meeting in a Pentagon conference room, it hit me. There are no whiteboards in this room. In fact, most of the conference rooms lack a whiteboard. While individual offices and...
