Marv's Smart Future

MAY 21, 2018

Navy has embarked on a transformational Fleet Design vision to enhance U.S. Like previous transformation visions, this vision has a high probability of failure under the weight of costly, long drawn-out acquisition timelines, driven by the acquisition “build culture” of Department of Defense (DoD) and Navy.

Technical Review 49

Technical Review Systems Review Technical Leadership Programming 49

Marv's Smart Future

JANUARY 6, 2019

To fix DoD acquisition, one only has to leverage George Gilder ‘s brilliant adoption of Claude Shannon ‘s information theory as the economic growth engine. The same low-noise acquisition channel, and resulting entrepreneurial surprise are applicable and easily traced back through DoD’s acquisition history.

Government 49

Government Programming Artificial Intelligence Artificial Inteligence 49

Marv's Smart Future

MARCH 7, 2019

The well-known valley of death between the DARPA or Military Service Science & Technology (S&T) development and military Programs of Record (PORs) is the result of the high-entropy, high-noise channel, that sits between S&T and the bureaucratic DoD acquisition system. SECDEF Robert McNamara Jan 1061-Feb 1968.

Budget 45

Budget Programming Policies Sustainability 45