Prairie Capital Advisors, Inc.’s Post

Resonated strongly with my former Palantir colleague Tara Murphy Dougherty, who highlighted a critical shift in Army tech acquisition at #AUSA2024. The move toward “characteristics of need” puts warfighter requirements first and opens the door for innovative commercial solutions. As Tara notes, this approach allows industry to suggest solutions rather than being constrained by predefined requirements.    Christian Brose also made a crucial point about shifting focus from contract deliverables to mission outcomes. True success isn't just meeting requirements—it's solving the warfighter's evolving problems at speed.    https://lnkd.in/eGu9nppH 

Shifting the focus to warfighter-driven needs and mission outcomes is the way forward. It’s about enabling industry to think creatively and deliver faster, solving challenges at the speed of relevance. Exciting times for #Innovation and #TechAcquisition! #WarfighterFirst #MissionOutcomes

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John Ferrari at American Enterprise Institute offers some advice to the incoming U.S. Secretary of Defense: focus on fixing internal issues at the Pentagon. "Our military is in its most perilous shape since the end of the 1970s: Woefully behind in utilizing existing technologies... and burdened with an acquisition process and programs that cost billions to deliver hand-crafted weapons that cannot be manufactured to scale and often do not even work." What to do about it? The new SECDEF should focus on "acquisition, resources, and recruiting." https://lnkd.in/e-JjP3dY 

I think Ferrari's emphasis on having a SecDef with a strong emphasis on internal reforms is accurate. I'm less clear with some of his specifics. I get the symbolic utility of axing a major program and investing in drones but it's really not clear that unmanned systems are a like for like replacement for either of the two he suggests. Given short time horizons and limited resources we have to be take calibrated risks not theatrical gestures.

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