by petemodi | Oct 17, 2022 | Bureaucracy, Innovation, Policy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog DOD Needs a Pilot Shortage No, not the warriors who fly aircraft into combat, DoD needs many, many more of them. What I’m talking about is pilot programs where a set of programs experiment with a new approach. The DoD bureaucracy is...
by petemodi | Dec 15, 2021 | NDAA, Policy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog CAEs Must Provide Congress Their Naughty and Nice List Ever ask a parent which child is their favorite and which they like the least? Silly question, right. Most parents would say, at least in front of their kids, “I love all my kids...
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 ltedder | Feb 18, 2021 | Policy
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...
by ltedder | Jan 19, 2021 | Policy
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Middle Tier of Acquisition and Cheeseburger Salad “What the heck is that?” My colleague and I are having lunch on the patio of his favorite burger place so that we can talk about the Adaptive Acquisition Framework and how it is better than...
