I am recently retired from government service, after 28 years in the Army and then 20 years of teaching at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). I have been fortunate to see acquisition from the ...

On April 9, 2025, Executive Order titled “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base,” was signed by President Donald J. Trump. The executive order clearly ...

ShadowObjects LLC, Leonardtown, Maryland, is awarded a $34,060,886 cost-plus-fixed-fee, labor hour, cost-reimbursable indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract. This contract provides support ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Air and Marine Operation’s (AMO) aviation assets are critical tools for carrying out its interdiction capabilities and surveillance missions. Failure to ...

So what is an Acquisition Program Manager (APM)? What does that even mean? In this article, I hope to clarify some of this and provide a boundary for what the University of Dayton’s (U.D.) Government ...

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer at Washington Dulles International Airport holds up a camera used for the facial biometric process. (CBP) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) invests ...

The most recent version of the federal defense budget includes $9.9 million for planning and design of a new “Acquisition Management Complex” at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, setting the stage for ...

Chuck Leblo is the Founder and Chief Strategist at Interact One. His focus is on strategy, critical thinking and problem solving. Customer acquisition refers to the process of gaining new customers.