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Podcast: The DOGE Effect on Defense Acquisition – Opportunity or Nightmare?
> If received by email click on link to website on the upper right In this episode, Strategic Institute, discusses the opportunity to make improvements in defense acquisition for R&D and delivering... READ MORE
Don’t be a JAG-off | How Government Lawyers can Enable Innovation
When it comes to innovating federal business practices for R&D and delivering new capabilities a frequently identified roadblock to bettering processes are government lawyers. Government lawyers tend to err on the side of... READ MORE
Getting the Changes in Government Business Right.
Change is coming for government, including the Department of Defense (DOD) and the defense industry. Improving government efficiency is a central initiative of the incoming Presidential administration. Change can be fast-tracked by... READ MORE
Podcast: New Administration – New Acquisition System?
We’re back! Strategic Institute dusts itself to help off to once again help affect positive change in Federal Acquisition for R&D and the delivering of new advanced capabilities. In this episode we... READ MORE
New Proposed Rule for Other Transactions
The proposed rule is misguided and counterproductive. Issuing the rule involves a major change and would be contrary to law! General. A regulatory approach to implementing “Other Transactions” (OTs) is contrary to the... READ MORE
Telstar I – Perspective, Thinking and Innovation
Telstar I – Perspective, Thinking and Innovation Once upon a time the government had a monopoly on outer space. Whether it was the Soviet government, or the U.S. government, space launches and satellites... READ MORE
Eisenhower’s Tea Leaves: Virtues of a dynamic and robust (defense) industrial base
When war clouds began to darken in the late 1930’s America’s defense industry was a small, almost insignificant, factor in the economy. As the military began rapid expansion, feelers were put out to... READ MORE
Other Transactions & Third-Party Financing Primer
From 2016-2019 Strategic Institute in conjunction with Innovation Finance Group later 50lb Brain worked hard to drag DoD acquisition leadership and bureaucracy to water, to show them the way. We illustrated how the... READ MORE