Eric Lofgren

Acquisition and Seapower @ SASC | PPBE Reform matters | Make industrial mobilization cool again

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@jordanschneider @KHawickhorst @ejames_c @marquezxavier @Evolving_Moloch @eric_is_weird Haha, well Sen Wicker has released something like Goldwater 2.0 just a couple weeks ago! Trying to break the merry go round of acquisition reform.

https://t.co/fFYL733A5i

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@dkrajendra Interested to learn more and connect you with DoD energetics community.

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@JoshuaSteinman @__searchlight_ @DOGE Cost benefit analyses are always doomed to fail due to incommensurables and overlapping probability distributions. The methodology Pierre Sprey and others used to get to A10 was sound, generally theorized in Boyd's destruction and creation.

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@MergeNewsletter 😭

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@jordanschneider @alexandr_wang Looking forward to listening

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@SubBrief The amount under construction is so high because the backlog is so great. This isnt a measure of thruput, as it was conveyed to me, but the tonnage on order being worked on. While VCS buildspans were supposed to get down to 60 months, they are actually around 96.

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@PeteModi It'd be funny if it weren't so sad!

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@ppbereform Important, thanks for your work!

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@Andercot Is DoD paying attention for potential transition?

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@goatmaster89 @cdrsalamander @JerryHendrixII @ConsWahoo 🧐

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@DrChrisCombs @AJ_Piplica ??

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@jordanschneider This is a match made in heaven

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@maeday22 Good set of reporting thanks

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@Aaron_MatthewIL @GravitysRa1nbow @StrategicTrends Looks like courthouse kabob to me

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@vc @ADoricko Rain song led zep, obv

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This, from the Walter Isaacson biography, is both an underrated aspect of SpaceX’s success, and the perfect example of why “cost plus” manufacturing (used by many aspects of US Government) is a terrible idea

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@MergeNewsletter Dishing out hot takes, good to see you up there now need to find the recording.

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@JohnDDulin @ashleevance Updated version here, thanks for sharing! https://t.co/i2O4b2quUr

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@MergeNewsletter The 700B IC estimate is likely purchasing power adjusted. Chinas 2022 budget was like $230B, IISS estimates $319B, and if you adjust that MER for PPP instead (1.7x) you get like $550B. But in some things 4-5x might be more appropriate, maybe over $1T on the higher end.