On this episode of the DefAero Report Daily Podcast, sponsored by Bell, Dr. Jerry McGinn, the executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University who served in the Pentagon’s office of manufacturing and industrial base policy and his colleague, Eric Lofgren, a research fellow specializing in government contracting, discuss their new report, with Lloyd Everhart — “Execution Flexibility and Bridging the Valley of Death” — on how innovative smaller companies with good ideas can survive the Pentagon acquisition process to grow into sustainable enterprises, grading DoD’s innovation initiatives aimed at more quickly harnessing technology to solve national security problems, how reforming the Planning, Programming, Budgeting & Execution could have a dramatic impact on both improving and accelerating the entire acquisition ecosystem, and more with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.
