{"id":1518,"date":"2005-07-02T00:04:18","date_gmt":"2005-07-02T00:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2005-07-02T00:04:18","modified_gmt":"2005-07-02T00:04:18","slug":"doing_less_with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1518","title":{"rendered":"Doing Less With More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capt Dan Ward, USAF (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.belisarius.com\/modern_business_strategy\/ward\/ward_doing_less_with_more.pdf\">pdf<\/a>) on the pitfalls of overfunding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nLet me get right to it: the Department of Defense acquisition community today has too much money. There, I\u2019ve said it, and it feels good. It may be a career-limiting opinion, but after 10 years in this business, I can confidently (albeit na\u00efvely) conclude we have too much money. More important, I con- tend this overfunding is limiting our ability to innovate, which has negative consequences for America\u2019s warfighting capabilities. Now that I have your attention, let me explain how I reached this conclusion:<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capt Dan Ward, USAF (pdf) on the pitfalls of overfunding: Let me get right to it: the Department of Defense acquisition community today has too much money. There, I\u2019ve said it, and it feels good. It may be a career-limiting opinion, but after 10 years in this business, I can confidently (albeit na\u00efvely) conclude we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}