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 Pete Modigliani | 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 dbward@mitre.org | Apr 1, 2020 | Innovation, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog JTRS: A Cautionary Tale For Today 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...
by ltedder | 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 dbward@mitre.org | 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 ltedder | 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...
