by Daniel Ward | Apr 1, 2020 | Innovation, Rapid Acquisition
A version of this post originally appeared in National Defense Magazine in 2012. It has been edited and updated. In a January 2012 article titled Failure To Communicate, published on the Center For Public Integrity’s iWatch News site, journalist David Axe took a look...
by Lorna Tedder | Feb 19, 2020 | Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Why We’re Confused about Agile vs Rapid To know where we’re going, it helps to know how you got to where you are. We often look back at some years-old or decades-old or even centuries-old point of view and make frownie faces because...
by Daniel Ward | Jan 21, 2020 | News, Policy, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog What’s So Great About MTA’s? (Part 1) The new Middle Tier of Acquisition instruction (DoDi 5000.80) is a pretty big deal. In this post I’ll explain why, but first, a tiny bit of background. The document (effective 30 Dec 2019)...
by Lorna Tedder | Jan 9, 2020 | Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog 20 Defense Contracting Things to Watch in 2020 A mentor once told me that where we put our attention gets our juice—our life force to make things happen. If we begin the new year aware of certain things to watch as the year unfolds, then we...
by Lorna Tedder | Oct 1, 2019 | Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog The Increasingly Urgent Car Wreck You might not think that a properly documented and truly urgent requirement would get questioned—or even denied—by staff reviewers, but it does happen and for the oddest reason: the passage of time, the...
by Lorna Tedder | Aug 12, 2019 | Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Reverse-Mapping the Acquisition Valley of Death What if we mapped our way across the Acquisition “Valley of Death” … backwards? In the past, I’ve advised small businesses to consider SBIRs as a first step in daisy-chaining their way across...
