Category Archives: Leadership

ADM Archie Clemins Memoriam & New Webinars

Honoring Admiral Archie Clemins and an Introduction to the latest three posted webinars. Continue reading

Posted in Leadership, Technology Evolution | 10 Comments

Podcast Update

Jim and I have now completed six thirty minute webinars that are posted on this site, YouTube, and Linkedin. Here is a short introduction to these webinars. We find these discussions to be very informative and relevant to the challenges … Continue reading

Posted in Cybersecurity, DoD Acquisition, DoD IT Acquisition, Global Perspectives, Leadership, National Security, Technology Evolution, The China Challenge, U.S. Navy Capability | Leave a comment

Effective DoD Acquisition Needs Less Noise … Part 2

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. … Continue reading

Posted in DoD Acquisition, DoD IT Acquisition, Global Perspectives, Leadership, Technology Evolution | 17 Comments

Effective DoD Acquisition Needs Less Noise! …Part 1

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. Shannon’s 1948 landmark information theory paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” defines information as surprise. For his … Continue reading

Posted in DoD Acquisition, Global Perspectives, Leadership, Technology Evolution | 21 Comments

Blockchain – The Coming Global Paradigm Shift!

Blockchain my become the basis of a new economy, but it can start transforming DoD Continue reading

Posted in Cybersecurity, DoD IT Acquisition, Global Perspectives, Leadership, Technology Evolution | 11 Comments

Navy Acquisition Can Easily Be Fixed

Driven by peer naval competition from Russia and China, the U.S. Navy has embarked on a transformational Fleet Design vision to enhance U.S. naval warfare. Along with new weapon and sensor technologies, this vision is critically dependent upon out-pacing peer … Continue reading

Posted in Cybersecurity, DoD IT Acquisition, Global Perspectives, Leadership, Technology Evolution | 19 Comments

Time to Stop Measuring Inputs and Deliver IT Capability!

“…the result is institutionalized processes that prevent IT acquisitions from fully meeting operational needs while failing to defend against peer-capable cyber security threats!” Measuring inputs does not equal effective outputs! It is difficult to measure the output success of a military system acquisition … Continue reading

Posted in DoD IT Acquisition, Leadership, Technology Evolution | 32 Comments