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Now we just have to fully embrace the innovative approaches being discussed- shorten timelines, reduce length of contracting documents, and automate the drafting of the contract and RFX. The first step is discussing and accepting the issues exist- now act on those recommended changes.

SOF's strength lies in its ability to understand and shape the operational environment. #SOF offers strategic choices for United States Department of Defense leaders and the #JointForce, enhancing #IntegratedDeterrence in alignment with the National Defense Strategy. #People #Win #Transform

ICYMI: My conversation with Laura Taylor-Kale, PhD on the National Defense Industrial Strategy is now live on the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) youtube channel. Summary video coming soon! #NDIS #supplychain #production #workforce #acquisition #allies

Business Owners: How will you bridge the gap? By operating your business in a way that, as Christopher M. Snider puts it, "drives the income and, more importantly, the transferable value to create the financial resources to enable you to achieve your personal purpose." It's a question that many of my conversations revolve around as a defense acquisition professional where I plan and activate the businesses providing those maintenance and sustainment services to ensure an operationally available weapons system. For example: What are the required capabilities that are needed to support a system? (i.e. people, equipment, facilities, business operations etc.) What capabilities currently exist to provide that level of support to the system? What are my options for "bridging the gap"? Similarly, understanding your three gaps as business owner is equally as important for building and leading a successful and significant company with a ready-to-exit capability. It's all part of the Master Plan. By having a clear picture of your personal purpose and what your desired lifestyle looks like post-business, you can figure out what your net worth goal is. The first gap is your Wealth Gap = Your Net Worth Goal minus Your Current Actual Net Worth (not including your business) The second gap is your Value Gap = Best-in-Class Value at Your Level of Sales minus Your Actual business Value The third gap is your Profit Gap = Best-in-Class Profit at Your Level of Sales minus Your Actual Profit This is how you begin to build a strategy that's decomposed into action. Do you know your three Gaps? #Leadership #BusinessGrowth #Entrepreneur #Vetrepreneur #DefenseIndustry #AerospaceAndDefense #ExitPlanning #ValueAdvisor #SmallBusiness #Business #VeteranOwnedAndOperated #VeteranOwned #MarineCorps #Navy #Army #AirForce #SpaceForce #CoastGuard

“That is why this digital transformation must be identified as a top national security priority, on par with other major challenges the Department has so effectively met. Such a designation, accompanied by sustained leadership and oversight at the highest levels of the Department, is necessary to ensure all Components of the Department are working at speed and in unison to the same common vision. It is also an essential element for ensuring all Components receive the appropriate and necessary resources to support efforts, as well as the kind of “risk absorption” leaders must provide in any innovative and forward-leaning organization. And, in the end, a well-executed digital transformation strategy will also catalyze a wide range of impacts and benefits to the Department, including but not limited to the kind of transformational culture change to stand the Department in good stead for the unknown challenges of the future. The landscape within the Department and outside of it is already rich with the learnings and lessons of an array of pilots and experimentation as well as real-world applications. The global realities dictate time is not on the United States’ side. Fortunately, utilizing the lessons learned, DoD is in a position to dramatically accelerate this foundational shift. There is no time to waste.” https://lnkd.in/ezfvAwUV

I’m attending Defense Strategies Institute’s #digitalengineering For Defense Summit next week at the National Harbor in #DC showcasing how PeopleTec, Inc. is enabling #digitalengineering for the United States Department of Defense! If you’re going to be there, let’s connect! #digitaltransformation #mbse #agilesoftware #datascience #artificialintelligence

The Navy really lacks a surge capacity for ship building. realistically, we can't make good on losses in a conflict anymore. Ship building is the very reason we won WWII. We could outlast the Japanese and out supply the Germans. American ship building needs a dramatic makeover. The adoption of digital engineering, increased use of modular construction and flexible mission roles for future ships would all give a more ready Navy. In the interim, we should buy some ships from S Korea and hire them to teach us how to build again.

During yesterday’s panel at #RNDF2023, U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Dr. William LaPlante briefly discussed the Pentagon’s inaugural National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) that is set to be released soon. This strategy is specifically designed to incentivize new capital investment and expand and sustain new capacity. It provides a thorough roadmap to how we can grow capabilities and modernize the defense industry. As Dr. LaPlante mentioned, however, it will take bold, coordinated action from Congress, the administration, and the private sector to get our industrial base back in fighting shape. #defense #defenseindustry #manufacturing #pentagon

Looking at next topic to ponder and any insights or leads that can help develop this article. Is the title true or not? If so why? Addressing the Marginalization of Air Mobility in the U.S. Defense Planning and Budgeting Process

Saab, Inc.'s Chief Strategy Officer Michael D. Brasseur recently participated in a roundtable discussion with Foreign Policy prior to the Reagan National Defense Forum titled “Innovation to Secure Our Future: The Role of Tech and Data in Defense Modernization and Future Readiness.” It was a thoughtful discussion about the latest trends in how tech and data can be used to modernize defense and create a more secure future. #innovation #defense