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E4 - How the Pentagon Buys Stuff

The Merge

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Program Management in Acquisitions and Acquisitions Is a Little Bit Different Than DARPA

The bigger more complex the program and the more uncertainty and future looking it is, then you start injecting multiple technological risk factors. So if I want to build an aircraft I want it to have a new engine has never been developed so now you're injecting all kinds of programmatic risk. Your costs schedule and performance kind of just go out the window pretty quickly here.

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