In this podcast, Strategic Institute highlights the opportunities, mandated by Congress (2018 & 2023) and now the President (2025), to use flexible acquisition authorities and create teams (Special Acquisition Forces) to explore, experiment with new and different business approaches … Continued
In this podcast episode, Strategic Institute, discusses why defense acquisition, a well-known weakness in the process for R&D and delivering new advanced capabilities, stays the course despite urgent needs and mandates. A problem decades in the making, DoD does not … Continued
In this podcast episode, Strategic Institute highlights their long standing message of teaming for success. It is widely believed that family is the essential building block of society/civilization, just like a team is for any significant endeavor or enterprise. Federal … Continued
In this podcast episode, Strategic Institute gets back to basics, asking what is the purpose of Other Transactions, why were they created, what is their ‘mission’? The answer, while misunderstood by many, is simple and clear. Additionally, we tackle … Continued
In this podcast episode, we discuss the opportunity to make improvements in defense acquisition for R&D and new capabilities by recognizing and jettisoning systems and processes that have become institutionally corrupt, those which no longer prioritize their purpose or mission, … Continued
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 bureaucratic myth and lore over actual law, … Continued
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 talk paradigm shifts, institutional corruption and other … Continued
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
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. Why? In this episode we try … Continued
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