by Pete Modigliani | Aug 31, 2021 | Accelerate, 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 Pete Modigliani | 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...
by Pete Modigliani | May 20, 2021 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Oversight, Delegation, and Assuming Responsibility “The U.S. Air Force must work differently with other DoD stakeholders, Congress, and both traditional and emerging industry partners to streamline processes and incentivize intelligent...
by Lorna Tedder | Feb 24, 2021 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog We Don’t Need Another Hero For almost seven years now, I’ve been pulled into conferences, workshops, and speakers’ panels to talk about innovative acquisition techniques. Every year, new names and faces show up on the innovation...
by Lorna Tedder | Feb 11, 2021 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Understanding the (Not So) Obvious In Acquisition, as with most areas of life, we sometimes cannot help one another because we not only don’t understand each other but we don’t even know that we don’t understand one another or what...
by Roger Thrasher | May 7, 2020 | Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog SWAP Your TAME There’s a saying in the aircraft design world that every feature must “buy its way onto the airplane.” That’s because every piece of hardware or software that’s added to an airplane consumes a precious resource by taking up...
