Is the problem contract regulations? Or the layering of bureaucratic hierarchies? Or proliferation of activities around Defense Acquisition Board meetings? Or the slow moving requirements process? Or interference from the Congress? Or a risk averse culture? Or budget justifications? Or short tenures for program managers? Or is it the MILSPECs? Or the revolving door? Or funding instability/sequestration? Or poor oversight of test and evaluation? etc.įor the past 70 or more years, there have been Task Forces, Blue Ribbon Committees, Reform Panels, and so forth. How can you convince the public sphere to support a reform when it can’t be explained to an actively engaged businessman? In fact, its pretty damning upon the system that Mark Cuban, a successful entrepreneur and generally smart guy, seems to have no clue about what’s going wrong. But “Welcome to the military” did not exactly provide Mark Cuban any context to understand what is going wrong. Sure, the airman’s response to Mark Cuban was pretty funny. ![]() ![]() ![]() See the video and some commentary via Tyler Rogoway. The airman responds “Welcome to the military.” After a good bit of laughter, the Secretary of the Air Force stands up, walks over to the airman, and hugs him!Ī bit later on, the airman clarified what the “boots on the ground” want: “we want mechanical, we want reliability, and we want simplicity.” He got a good bit of applause for that. At the Air Force “Spark Tank” innovation award - presumably titled after CNBC’s Shark Tank show - Mark Cuban asks a young innovative airman why anyone would build an overly expensive system.
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