Command and Agency leaders must understand the changing reality where they find themselves operating. Technology-driven process improvement means the cost of exploration and experimentation has been so dramatically reduced that discovering solutions that are both more effective and less costly is now completely possible. This new dynamic can be seen in the advances driven by...

In one of my first official contract actions in Afghanistan in 2007, I made a common but avoidable mistake, and the result serves as a good lesson for both industry and government contracting personnel – that it is important to do the right thing, for both the government and the contractor.  I cannot recall the...