Disrupting Acquisition Blog
CAEs Must Provide Congress Their Naughty and Nice List
Congress wants DoD Acquisition Executives to report which MDAPs are on the Naughty or Nice list.
Limiting Beliefs in Acquisition and Life
Why are we making Acquisition harder than it needs to be? Let’s look at some long-ingrained limiting beliefs to see how what we believe affects how we interact.
DoD Mission Engineering and NFL Football
An NFL team must play as a cohesive unit to be successful. In DoD, Mission Engineering ties together many current and emerging capabilities to maximize mission performance.
The Pentagon Has Too Many Hall Monitors
In a dynamic national security environment where the DoD needs to move faster, the Pentagon has an array of Hall Monitors focused on ensuring no one runs in the halls.
Sparks of Innovation
For rapid innovation to spread successfully, we have to lay a smart foundation.
New Acquisition Titles
Simplifying the titles of acquisition executives and a back to basics approach to program managers.
Oversight, Delegation, and Assuming Responsibility
Do we empower experienced leaders to make decisions, learn, and succeed or are they just another cog in the bureaucracy?
Federal Acquisition Regulation Through the Equity Lens
What brilliant solutions never make it to the Acquisition table because we don’t realize we’re putting up barriers, whether physical, economic, or social?
Incentivizing Emerging Technologies in Contracts
Emerging technologies aren’t just for the future. Contracting Officers can incentivize industry and academia to use them on Government contracts now and speed up their journey into the mainstream.
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