defense acquisitions

Defense Business Board Provides Roadmap For Reforming The Department of Defense

July 29, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. The Department of Defense (DoD) has a lot of standing commissions, boards and advisory groups; at least 65 according to former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. This does not include a host of special commissions and temporary advisory boards directed [Read More...]

Pentagon Needs A Strategy For National Mobilization

July 22, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. It is evident to anyone paying attention that the United States has run out the string on its post-World War Two strategy of global engagement, forward military presence and a full spectrum military. The long-standing consensus on the role of [Read More...]

Better Buying Power 2.0 Failing To Deliver On Increased Competition

July 9, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. For nearly five years, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) has been striving to make increased competition for defense contracts the centerpiece of an acquisition strategy that was supposed to simultaneously reduce [Read More...]

Finmeccanica N.A. CEO Lays Out Vision For Global Commercial Defense Industrial Base

July 8, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. The Pentagon’s existing acquisition model is all but dead. It must inevitably give way for a new approach, one based on a smaller number of specialized defense firms, greater reliance on commercial companies and technologies, and expanded access to international [Read More...]

Performance Based Logistics Is A No Brainer Everywhere But In The Pentagon

July 3, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. The common definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior hoping for a different solution.  The Pentagon’s acquisition system is the poster child for insane behavior. Having failed repeatedly to reduce the cost of major defense products or the time [Read More...]

Technology Is Not The Solution To The High Cost Of Weapons Systems

May 19, 2014- Daniel Gouré, Ph.D. U.S. weapons systems cost too much. This time it is the head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Dr. Arati Prabhakar, making the same observation as virtually every other senior uniform and civilian leader in the Department of [Read More...]