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FAR vs OTs: Regulation vs Freedom | What is more conducive for innovation?
Most procurement lawyers, contracting officers and other acquisition professionals do not understand the relationship between highly regulated Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) contracts and Other Transaction (OT) contracts. This misunderstanding primarily stems from... READ MORE
Revolutionizing R&D and Capability Deployment: A Call for Change in Government Practices
The ability of the Department of Defense and other Government agencies to avoid facing reality or learn obvious lessons would be amusing if it was not so critically important. The Department of Defense... READ MORE
Technology and Industrial Base Policies Remain Relevant per NDAA 2024
Adherence to technology and industrial base policies can help alleviate supply chain disruptions and dependence on potential adversaries as sources of supply. In what might seem a minor change section 851 of... READ MORE
New DOD Other Transactions Guide: A Retreat from Innovation
The new (2023) Other Transactions Guide was waylaid by the DoD acquisition bureaucracy for a few years. Now out, the new guide, as expected, reflects business-as-usual thinking and a desire to limit... READ MORE
DoD: You have License to Think
A June 2023 Government Accountability Office report shows that DoD has a plethora of flexible authorities for more effectively pursuing and advancing knowledge and capability that are going unused or little used.... READ MORE
Outsider POV: Anti-Leadership in Defense Acquisition fails the Warfighter and a Nation
For an intellectual, a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and reflection about the reality of society, and who proposes solutions for normative problems, it is vexing to ponder why federal... READ MORE
The Narrow Mindedness of Defense Acquisition
Given the pitiful state of defense acquisition for R&D and delivering new capability that defers risk to the warfighter, wastes taxpayer funding, shrinks the industrial base, steals from the future, and is an... READ MORE
DoD’s National Defense S&T Strategy 2023 is a “Wish-list” not Strategy
The Department of Defense recently published “National Defense Science and Technology Strategy 2023” that contains ZERO consequential strategy and parrots what others have said ad nauseam. The document correctly identifies... READ MORE