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...
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...
We Don’t Need Another Hero

We Don’t Need Another Hero

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...
Leaders Intend but Workforce Interprets

Leaders Intend but Workforce Interprets

Disrupting Acquisition Blog Leaders Intend but Workforce Interprets No matter how many policies and acquisition tools come down from senior leaders — regardless of how creative, streamlined, or innovative — I almost always feel there is something missing...