by ltedder | Oct 1, 2019 | Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Rapid Acquisition 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 same passage of...
by ltedder | Aug 12, 2019 | Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Lorna Tedder 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 the infamous Valley of Death, that...
by Debra Zides | Jul 18, 2019 | Accelerate, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Debra Zides Hurry! I need your help! We (yes, you!), the influencers, innovators, and users of the DoD acquisition ecosystem, need to put the kibosh on this newly-forming, open semantic issue of speed to failure versus speed to learning...
by Jennifer Choi | Jul 17, 2019 | Mindset, Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Jennifer Choi When you’re “in the system,” especially when it’s a massive one like the DoDI 5000.02 Defense Acquisition System, it can feel like a never-ending uphill battle… an overwhelmingly long and confusing (even contradictory at...
by ltedder | Jul 14, 2019 | Rapid Acquisition
Disrupting Acquisition Blog Lorna Tedder The biggest complaint I’m hearing from my network is that many [self-proclaimed] innovators aren’t innovating. “All talk and no action,” I’m hearing. The complaint is second only to that of the Frozen Middle, though there’s...
