by ltedder | Jun 17, 2020 | Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Importance of User Stories A few months ago, I got a call from my doctor’s office, the kind of call that knocks your feet out from under you—not totally unlike when things go amiss with a big procurement. The best-case solution,...
by petemodi | May 22, 2020 | Accelerate, Policy, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Accelerating Space Acquisition The Secretary of the Air Force, Barbara Barrett, in partnership with the US Space Force, submitted a report to Congress on an Alternative Acquisition System for the Space Force. This is a great report that...
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...
by petemodi | May 4, 2020 | Accelerate, Innovation, Mindset
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Pentagon Wars 2020: The Return of the Bureaucrats As the United States advances in the Great Power Competition, one thing is certain – the DoD must increase its speed, agility, and innovation. This new era offers greater threats and...
by petemodi | Apr 16, 2020 | Accelerate, Innovation, Policy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Modernizing DoD’s Requirements System The world is accelerating into the future, but the DoD’s requirements system is stuck in the past. The current approach to generating requirements is too slow to produce results when they...
by dbward@mitre.org | Apr 9, 2020 | Agile, Innovation
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Don’t Play Mob Ball, Revisited “Have you ever seen little kids play soccer? Without fail, all the kids on the field mob the ball as soon as the whistle blows. It’s the only thing they focus on, despite what their coaches told them about...
