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National Defense February 2013 Dale Church	The Name of the Acquisition Game is Empowerment and Accountability Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition Frank Kendall's "better buying power" initiatives deserve applause, but it is also important to examine the root cause of many of the problems in the defense acquisition system.
National Defense July 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Tries to Recapture Tech Glory Days After spending $50 billion over the past decade on failed weapons programs, the Pentagon is grasping for answers. Assorted procurement reforms have been tried, but they have delivered only marginal results.
National Defense July 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Hope and Despair in Government Procurement It's crunch time for acquisition reformers as they face a July deadline to submit recommendations to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Acquisition Reform Act: The Backlash Has Begun It's only been seven months since President Obama signed the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009. Predictably, a chorus of disapproval already is being heard.
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999.
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Without Radical Change, Many More Defense Programs Will End Up Like JSF The breathless hype over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's soaring costs and schedule slips clouds a much bigger acquisition predicament for the Pentagon: How to stop more programs from ending up like JSF.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates: Industry Unharmed By Program Cancellations The Pentagon needs to stop buying "exquisite" technology that does not meet real military needs in favor of larger quantities of critical items.
HBS Working Knowledge May 16, 2012	Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending.
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Reform Agenda Targets Acquisition Workforce The Pentagon's cadre of "professional shoppers" could see a wave of reforms in the coming years, as the Defense Department remains under unrelenting pressure to fix its buying practices.
National Defense July 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Blues: After a Decade Of Largesse, Not Much to Show for It After a decade of lavish spending, the Pentagon is now left with an aging fleet of weapon systems, an overstrained force, out-of-control personnel and healthcare costs, and no idea of how to prepare for tomorrow's wars.
National Defense May 2009 William Y. Bishop	Pentagon Acquisition Rules Exacerbate Problems The defense industry has launched an intensive lobbying campaign in Washington saying that future reductions in acquisition funding will put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk.
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Industrial Policy Debate: Should The Pentagon Pick Winners and Losers? Industry executives and trade associations have called for the Defense Department to take preemptive action to protect key sectors that are considered of strategic importance to national security.
National Defense March 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Message to Weapons Buyers: Make it Cheaper and Faster Robert Gates concluded that the only way to deploy hardware quickly enough to war zones was to circumvent the traditional buyers and create ad-hoc "rapid procurement" teams.
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Begins Broad Review Of Acquisition Workforce Skills The Pentagon has launched an extensive evaluation of military acquisition and contracting personnel in order to gauge their skills and competence.
National Defense September 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Next Pentagon Procurement 'Bow Wave' Will Be a Tsunami With the Defense Department now facing a precipitous drop in new equipment purchases over the next two years, the green-eyeshade crowd already is predicting a huge bow wave for 2018 and beyond, which could be the biggest one yet.
National Defense October 2009 Sandra i. Erwin	New Business Model Needed To Replace the Status Quo In the weapons-acquisition world, the "normal" ways of doing business are frowned upon around the E-ring these days.
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense, Industry Upheaval Defined By 10 Key Moments Here's a look back at 10 key moments that defined the decade for the military and the defense industry.
National Defense November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Among Pentagon Buyers, Much Angst About IT The Pentagon procurement system treats information technology as if it were a weapon system, and may take a decade to acquire. By the time the technology is fielded, it is five generations too old.
National Defense June 2005 Sandra Erwin	Procurement Probes Framed By Bleak Financial Forecast A string of procurement debacles at the Defense Department has stirred, yet again, calls for drastic reforms in military acquisition rules and policies.
National Defense July 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	To Meet War Equipment Needs, Commanders Continue to Bypass Pentagon Acquisition System Commander's wish lists are supposed to influence the military services' buying decisions, but often do not. If they do make it into the services' budgets, it takes years for the system to deliver equipment.
National Defense March 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Acquisition Business Reaches Inflection Point Acquisition flops over the past decade have put the fear of God into Pentagon leaders who now face the added pressure of having to ensure programs perform in a zero-tolerance environment, and with budget cuts to boot.
National Defense May 2010 Harvey M. Sapolsky	The False Promises of Acquisition Reform Despite meetings, laws, and hearings on acquisition reform, cost overruns, schedule slippages, and performance lapses still plague nearly all weapon system acquisitions.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates Reshapes the Budget, Can He Change the Culture? Defense Secretary Robert Gates' reshuffle of the Pentagon's $1.7 trillion weapons portfolio contained no major surprises.
National Defense January 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	You Want Government to Spend More Wisely? Give It Less Money The government's biggest spenders -- the Pentagon and defense agencies -- are slowly coming to grips with the realization that lean times are indeed coming.
National Defense June 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Can the Pentagon Be Liberated From Bureaucratic Stranglehold? To put it simply, change in Washington is tough, especially at the world's largest five-sided building.
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Must Avert 'Points of Failure' in Supplier Base, Says Industrial Policy Chief With the U.S. military still involved in two major conflicts, the Defense Department must ensure that certain sectors of the defense industry remain financially healthy.
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration.
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Despite SecDef Pleas, Pentagon Is Losing the Innovation War As a result of not knowing what technologies are available, the military ends up with systems that become obsolete within a few years.
National Defense August 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Soon to Be Added to List of Pentagon's Unaffordable Luxuries: People in Uniform The all-volunteer military force has become so expensive that, compared to a decade ago, the Pentagon is paying twice as much for the same number of people.
National Defense November 2010 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	Defense Spending: Today's 'Broken' Budgeting Process Must Change The defense budget process is a balancing act, where selected segments of the government and industry determine the allocation of resources to a vast array of requirements. The process, however, has not worked.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	Advice for the Next U.S. President: Fix Military Acquisitions Several leading defense acquisition experts offer a few observations and recommendations for the next president.
National Defense January 2010	Readers Sound Off On Recent Stories Defense acquisition woes... Recruiting talent... Technology challenges... Air Force tanker... Renewable energy...
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Industry: What Does Change Really Mean? The defense industry is unsure how they will be affected by revamped procurement practices promised by the Pentagon.
National Defense February 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Administration's Defense Strategy Precedes Budget: A Good First Step It has been just over a year since former Defense Secretary Robert Gates started a $100 billion efficiencies campaign wherein the savings were redistributed within the Pentagon's budget top line.
National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	As Pressure Grows to Cut Spending, the True Cost of Weapons Is Anyone's Guess A decade of soaring Pentagon spending is coming to an end, and it is leaving behind considerable fiscal wreckage.
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Less Money, But Still Business As Usual As the dust begins to settle to reveal a leaner defense budget, Pentagon contractors are strategizing for the new business environment. They also will be parsing the latest batch of Pentagon policies designed to turn around failing weapon acquisition programs.
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette	What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations.
National Defense April 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	No Way to Escape Tighter Budgets, Acquisition Reform Two major developments are stirring many questions and concerns about what the current mood means for the industry.
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Air Force Big-Ticket Weapons So Far Safe From Budget Ax Air Force pleas for bigger procurement budgets so far have fallen on deaf ears. But the service can rest assured that virtually none of its major weapon acquisition programs appears to be in financial jeopardy.
National Defense January 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell	We Must Prepare for Defense Budget Crunch Substantial growth in defense spending after 9/11 gave the Pentagon's budget a reprieve. The day of financial reckoning, however, may fast be approaching if the current state of the nation's balance sheet offers any clues.
National Defense June 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Cries of 'Hollow Military' Stifle Rational Debate on Future Spending President Obama has called for $400 billion in Pentagon cuts over the next 12 years, and to some defense officials and lawmakers, this is just the opening salvo of a campaign to tear down the U.S. military.
National Defense May 2005 Roxana Tiron	Future Pentagon Investments To Reshape Defense Industry Despite being heavily committed in the Middle East, Defense Department officials argue that long-range investment decisions must begin now if the military is to have crucial capabilities 20 years down the road.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Department Should Refocus Technology Spending, Experts Warn Investments in technology tend to miss the mark and do little to enhance the United States' competitive standing as a high-tech powerhouse, said Pentagon advisors and outside analysts.
National Defense August 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Five Key Questions About the Defense Budget Here are some of the key questions that policymakers should bear in mind when it comes to the defense budget.
National Defense March 2015 Sandra Erwin	Defense Department Takes Steps to Energize Cutting-Edge Research The Defense Department is reorganizing its technology shop as it tries to light a fire under its science programs.
National Defense December 2014 Sandra Erwin	Pentagon Mulls Strategy for Next Arms Race The idea that the United States might see its overwhelming dominance in weapons technology erode is hard to comprehend, however, given the enormous spending gap between the Pentagon and everyone else.
National Defense August 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	War Over Defense Jobs Diverts Attention From Bloated Spending Each branch of the military owns multiple fleets of surveillance and armed drones, creating unneeded duplication.
National Defense March 2012 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	When Will the Military Services Come To Grips With a New Era of Austerity? Even with a smaller funding pie, the U.S. military services should be able to weather the coming budget reductions. But the services are anxious and insecure institutions. They want more, and they insist that their equipment is aging and in need of modernization.
National Defense March 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	The Budget Realities We Must Face As Congress deliberates at length on the fine points of the Bush administration's fiscal year 2006 budget request for the Defense Department, it may be an appropriate time to take a broader look at the potential implications of the Pentagon's spending plan.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Should 'Institutionalize' Cultural Training for Troops, Advisory Panel Says The Iraq war made it clear that the U.S. military neglected to study that country's culture before it deployed forces there.