The US faces growing pressure on its defense spending. The US needs to make fundamental changes in the way it develops its strategy, and its long term defense planning, programming and budgeting. The ...

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has repeatedly called for reforms to the Pentagon’s ineffective acquisition system, and rightly so. Yet the troubled acquisition process is only one aspect of a larger ...

Closed-loop execution-to-bid system continuously updates bid data based on past performance. Use historical, managed, controlled bid data to ensure accuracy and reduce bid and proposal expense. Create ...

This brief is a part of series prepared by the Burke Chair in Strategy on current issues in defense budgeting and strategy. Other briefs within this series include, “'Unplanning' for Uncertainty” “The ...