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Show Me the Money — Time to Rethink This DOD Cloud-Broker
Remember that note from the DoD CIO that designated DISA as the priority choice for defense agencies seeking cloud services? Well, it may not be so any more. For all the bureaucratic hangers-on, don’t kid yourself — this is really … Continue reading
DOE’s KBase Moves Big Data in the Right Direction
While Defense and other federal agencies are trying to figure out how to leverage big data, some of the folks at DOE are moving out. The Department of Energy’s KBase team has set up a way for non-IT folks to … Continue reading
Analytics as a Service – DISA May Be Missing a Business Opportunity
I have great respect for Dave Bennett and the task he faces as DISA CIO. He is on track in pushing for enterprise solutions that leverage COTS solutions without driving modifications that make them no-longer COTS. Focusing on addressing ways to … Continue reading
Owning an IT Infrastructure is NOT a Core Competency of Most Businesses
Today’s C-suite leaders share that owning an IT infrastructure is not a core competency of their businesses and acquiring an infrastructure becomes less palatable unless the result directly contributes to improving the business or mission. However, they do want the end result — analytics and data discovery that will make the business more effective, efficient, and profitable. Continue reading
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Defense Acquisition – “Where Did That Requirement Come From, Anyway?”
The PBS series “Connections” was always interesting for me, because it joined the dots between present-day wonders and the science and invention required to make them so. It showed how various discoveries, scientific achievements and world events were successively interconnected to bring about particular aspects of modern technology. For a requirements developer and strategic planner, it provided interesting perspective.
Do you know where the requirement for the height and width of the USAF’s C-17 was derived? Among many other large items, the C-17 had to carry an Abrams tank, so it needed to be so many feet high and wide.
That is interesting bar conversation, until you ask where the Army derived the height and width of an Abrams tank? …..
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Corporate Re-Organization – Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Improve Mission Results
Stick around long enough and everything eventually cycles back. The USAF’s just announced re-org replays some parts of previous structures that may seem somewhat familiar to those who claim part of the past. At Air Force Materiel Command, after the … Continue reading
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Business Value is Driven by Data Context — Big Data Provides Challenge & Opportunity for Additional Insight
Technology is an enabler of new ways to improve the business and getting to the end result. If the next Uber drives down the cost, makes the ride better, improves the publishing process so that more writers are willing to … Continue reading
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Facebook’s “Altering Behavior” Occurs When Any Biz Wants to Improve Customer Experience & Result
The media hype on Facebook is spun as “altering behavior” to make it appear their business analysis is a bad thing. But that is what we all do when we’re tying to improve our business — tweak out the things that don’t work and replace it with products, designs, or services that work better. Good data analysts learn to fail fast and move on to what succeeds. Continue reading
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The Defense Acquisition Conundrum: Requirements, Performance, Oversight, Effectiveness, and Efficiency
Defense Acquisition exists to acquire a service, tool, or product needed to accomplish a mission or function in better fashion, more efficiently, more effectively, less cost. In an earlier and simpler time, the requirement was for rifles, bullets, clothes, food that … Continue reading
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Is It the Rules or the Inability to Make a Decision Inside the Rules That Is Hampering Military Acquisition?
A recent Reuters article pointed to the current acquisition rules as hampering our ability to quickly respond to cyber attacks against the networks, weapons, and the industry at larger. There is without question a large bureaucracy that often seems more … Continue reading
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