by petemodi | Jan 28, 2022 | Innovation, Mindset, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Engage Users Early and Often A priority aspect of the Software Acquisition Pathway is actively engaging users during development to provide insights and feedback. This is done in part through User Agreements and Value Assessments. User...
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 petemodi | 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 petemodi | 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 ltedder | 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 ltedder | 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...