by Peter 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...
by Peter Modigliani | Jan 14, 2020 | Accelerate, Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog What Have You Delivered? Last year, the Air Force Secretary and Acquisition Executive published a great Air Force Acquisition Annual Report for 2018. It covered a wide range of content, profiling the programs, enterprise level stats, with...
by Daniel Ward | Oct 30, 2019 | Innovation, Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Innovation By Dan Ward & Deb ZidesHardware assembly instructions are notoriously difficult to follow. Sometimes it’s because the words and pictures on the page were badly written, poorly labeled, or visually ambiguous. Other times the...
by ltedder | Oct 8, 2019 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Middle Tier of Acquisition in 1991—and Why It Matters Today Everyone seems a little frantic to figure out Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) as well as non-FAR-based Other Transactions because we all know you can’t go fast with the FAR and...
by Peter Modigliani | Sep 12, 2019 | Agile, Digital, Mindset
MIDDLE TIER OF ACQUISITION (MTA) Five Leading Business Strategies for Defense Innovation Thinkers50 is a leader in identifying, ranking, and sharing extraordinary management and business thinking. If you haven’t seen their site and annual awards, it’s...
by ltedder | Sep 10, 2019 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Training in Caves, Not Silos As an acquisition professional, I wasn’t trained in a silo: I was trained in a cave. I got all the right certifications and then some, yet only now do I understand how much I missed—and how little I understood...
