Auxo Insights

You know the feeling- you prioritize and then you reprioritize. Sometimes it’s a conscious and deliberate process and sometimes things come up and you re-prioritize on the fly. During this...

In my last article, I shared some thoughts on defining success in innovation programs, and ways we might do that with a more holistic understanding of elements of innovation and innovation...

I’ve spent the past week at SOF Week in Tampa, FL. If you’ve never been or have never heard of it, it’s a roughly week-long conference that’s jointly hosted by SOCOM and...

  When I was a Second Lieutenant, my Squadron Commander sat me down and handed me what we called the Career Pyramid that laid out exactly what assignment I needed to take next, when I...

I was recently asked my opinion on the USD (A&S) Class Deviation memo granting Special Acquisition Authority for Rapid Contracting for Combatant Commanders (if you haven’t seen it, you...

This is an opinion piece. And my opinion, which happens to be the correct opinion, is that OTAs are more fun to negotiate than FAR contracts. Are they faster than FAR contracts? Maybe—faster...

I’ve spent a lot of time, recently, chatting with folks inside and outside of the government on innovation. Inside the government, the most common topic seems to be about why so many...

To quote Kit DeLuca from the movie Pretty Woman, “You gotta have a goal. Do you have a goal?” It is easy to get people to talk about how their product or idea can solve a government...

  While VCs scour the Valley and Hill Country for their commercial, defense, and dual-use unicorns, GovCon companies are on the hunt for their own white whale: the sole source,...

 Some phenomenal questions and feedback filtered out from last week’s Open Topic Proposal Tips. Most of them surrounded the money. So, let’s talk about matching funds. 

If you...

The SBIR/STTR program is designed to assist companies working with the government for the first time ease into the federal market. The path from a Phase I to a Phase II to a Phase IIB or...

Feel free to debate this in the comments section, but it is my opinion that small businesses should be required to create a basis of estimate (BoE) more often, particularly in TACFI/STRATFI...