For Department, Command and Agency leaders, traditional methods have a long track record of legal reliability.  Unfortunately, many decades of experience also show that traditional methods have varying levels of success appearing to have a strong inverse correlation to complexity and uncertainty. In other words, the higher the complexity and uncertainty, the lower the probability...

One area of federal government acquisition that has always fascinated me is the concept of “strategic sourcing.”  The Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) website defines strategic sourcing as the collaborative and structured process of critically analyzing an organization’s spending and using this information to make business decisions. Strategic Sourcing involves the establishment or modification...