{"id":194594,"date":"2008-09-09T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/09\/another-indictment-of-the-lsi-concept\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T23:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T04:04:00","slug":"another-indictment-of-the-lsi-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/09\/09\/another-indictment-of-the-lsi-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Indictment of the LSI Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A17105244-64cd-46bf-b62a-b82b2f8f691a\">short article on the problems with the Lead System Integrator (LSI) concept<\/a> from Bettina Chavanne , and I agree with his categorization of this as, &#8220;A Fox in the Henhouse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She raises the concern that she is , &#8220;not sure the military can run its own acquisition programs any better than private LSIs,&#8221; though, and I think that she is completely wrong here.<\/p>\n<p>There is far greater accountability in the military, no golden parachutes, and the organizational imperatives are directed more towards military needs than to profits.<\/p>\n<p>The real problem is that the entire defense procurement process is completely broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a good short article on the problems with the Lead System Integrator (LSI) concept from Bettina Chavanne , and I agree with his categorization of this as, &#8220;A Fox in the Henhouse&#8221;. She raises the concern that she is , &#8220;not sure the military can run its own acquisition programs any better than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}