Publications
Publications
Long before this Substack, we’ve written and spoken about Defense Tech and Acquisition for years. Here’s a compilation of our works for your reference.
Strategic Defense Acquisition Reforms
Atlantic Council Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption, Jan 2024
Final Report Launch Event, Jan 2024
Atlantic Council Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption, Apr 2023
Former Senior Defense Officials on Defense Innovation, CSPAN, Apr 2023
The Future of Innovation in National Security, Building the Base Pod, Jul 2023
Bridging the Defense Department’s Valley of Death, NextGov Podcast, Apr 2022
Driving Innovation in Acquisition, DAU Webcast, Apr 2022
Shake Off the Pentagon's Industrial-Age Bureaucracy, Defense One, May 2021
Five by Five: Five Disciplines and Five Strategic Initiatives for the Pentagon in the Digital Age, Mar 2021
Modernizing DoD Requirements, Mar 2021
Accelerating Defense Acquisition, May 2019
WSARA: Baselining Programs Early Compounds the Problems, Defense AT&L Magazine, Jul 2010
PPBE Budget Reforms
The Modern Defense Budgeting System, May 2023
What it takes in acquisition to deter China, Acquisition Talk Podcast, Sep 2022
Five First Steps to a Modern Defense Budgeting System, Aug 2022
Pentagon needs a six-pillar foundation, The Hill, Mar 2022
The Pillars of the Modern Defense Budgeting System, Feb 2022
A bridge fund can’t solve the Pentagon’s emerging tech problem, Defense News, Mar 2021
Rapid and Commercial Acquisition
Transitioning Innovation to Field Lethality, America’s Futures Series, Jan 2024
Get to Know the Middle Tier of Awesome…, Acquisition, Defense One, Sep 2022
Middle Tier of Awesome, Strategic Institute Podcast, Oct 2022
Pentagon: Buy Commercial Already, Feb 2022
Reverse Innovation in Global Defense, Oct 2021
Harnessing Rapid Innovative Culture to Invigorate the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, NPS May 2020
Experimental Mid-Tier Acquisition: A Continuously Competitive Portfolio Pipeline Ecosystem, MITRE, May 2018
Proactively Tailored Acquisition Models, Mar 2017
Speed and Agility: How Defense Acquisition Can Enable Innovation and Rapid Technology Insertion, NPS, May 2016
How Agile Development Can Transform Defense IT Acquisition, May 2015
Defense Agile Acquisition Guide, Mar 2014
Portfolio Acquisition
Bad Idea: Managing Defense Requirements, Budgets, and Acquisitions via Programs, CSIS, Dec 2021
Portfolio Acquisition, NPS, Apr 2015
Think Portfolios, Not Programs, Defense AT&L Magazine, Nov 2014
Digital Transformation
Digital Pentagon, Defense AT&L Magazine, Nov 2013
Defense Acquisition Enterprise 2.0, Defense AT&L Magazine, Mar 2010