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RESET ROC Drill summary notes (FORSCOM hosted conference in Atlanta,17 Jun 2009). More detailed notes and slides available from DLRO. These notes capture the highilghts from the Introductory remarks and from the crucial "Turn 1") or "In...
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You may recall the email traffic a couple months ago that attended the publication of “America’s Defense Meltdown”. A number of the contributing authors will be discussing defense issues in a live Internet broadcast from the Cato Institute...
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According to a Boston Globe article by Bryan Bender, Ashton B. Carter, Professor of Science and International Affairs at the Harvard-Kennedy School of Government, has been nominated by President Obama to be the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer. Carter...
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Time, Cost, Performance: pick 2 is the old adage, probably because it seems to be true. Examples: you can get it now and cheap, but performance will suffer. Or you can get it now and great, but it will cost you a fortune Or, you can get it cheap and great...
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In other places on this blog, such as this discussion about acquisition reform , and Dr Paparone’s discussion of The Fallacy of Technical Rationality , we have seen commentary on the nature of the acquisition process. There is a strong case for...
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From some DLRO email traffic on the important topic of military acquisition reform: Background: 1. MAJ Dan Ward, USAF, has written a number of excellent force management articles over the years. His latest is available in the Jan/Feb issue of Defense...
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Out of control spending, unmanaged contracts, and broken acquisition procedures are repeated charges levied at the Pentagon by many circles, lately to include its Chief, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. Gates has been adamant about Acquisition reform...
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The World Security Institute's Center for Defense Information (CDI) has published a paper called America's Defense Meltdown, which was co-authored by "13 non-partisan Pentagon insiders, retired military officers & defense specialists"...
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Doctrine, and Materiel in the press: The most recent edition of Wired magazine is full of engaging articles on the storm developing in and around the idea of social scientists working side by side with Army units in defense of the nation's interests...
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Flaws in CSBA Report "An Army at the Crossroads" In his 72-page 2008 CSBA Report “An Army at the Crossroads,” Andrew F. Krepinevich recommends the Army develop what he terms a “Dual-Surge” force, with one force focused...
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Headline: The Project on National Security Reform Releases Recommendations Urging Sweeping Changes to Improve U.S. National Security System video presentation from National Press Club (and others as well): http://pnsr.org/web/module/video/sectionid/581...
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I was reviewing an article by Jim Quinn at the most excellent blog “Seeking Alpha”, wherein he laid a fiscally conservative response to t what he characterized as the apparent profligate spending associated with international adventurism initiated...
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