FAR vs OTs: Regulation vs Freedom | What is more conducive for innovation?

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  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 a false notion or premise, namely that … Continued

Revolutionizing R&D and Capability Deployment: A Call for Change in Government Practices

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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 and other Government agencies are in need … Continued

New DOD Other Transactions Guide: A Retreat from Innovation

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  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 the potential of these flexible acquisition authorities … Continued

The Narrow Mindedness of Defense Acquisition

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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 obvious threat to national security, one would … Continued

DoD’s National Defense S&T Strategy 2023 is a “Wish-list” not Strategy

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    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 that there is a very serious problem … Continued

Is DoD’s Acquisition System for R&D Institutionally Corrupt?

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Most people have a good idea of what fraud, waste, and abuse looks like, but few recognize institutional corruption, because it’s “normal”. From Harvard’s, Safra Center for Ethics:  “Institutional corruption is manifest when there is a systemic and strategic influence … Continued