New Acquisition Titles

New Acquisition Titles

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...
Oversight, Delegation, and Assuming Responsibility

Oversight, Delegation, and Assuming Responsibility

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...
Federal Acquisition Regulation Through the Equity Lens

Federal Acquisition Regulation Through the Equity Lens

Disrupting Acquisition Blog Federal Acquisition Regulation Through the Equity Lens Inequity: A lack of fairness or justice. Can be revealed by disparate and/or disproportionate outcomes experienced by different groups.  —  MITRE Equity Assessment Framework  The...
Incentivizing Emerging Technologies in Contracts

Incentivizing Emerging Technologies in Contracts

Disrupting Acquisition Blog Incentivizing Emerging Technologies in Contracts We are in that transition time where the technologies of tomorrow are emerging but not yet fully adopted. Transition times are difficult. The old way of doing business or gathering data or...
What’s Wrong with Making Contracting Shops Compete?

What’s Wrong with Making Contracting Shops Compete?

Disrupting Acquisition Blog What’s Wrong with Making Contracting Shops Compete?   Every few months, someone comes up with this crazy-brilliant new idea to have buying offices, aka Contracting shops, compete for workload to see who can get the job done best, with...