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By Andrew Park | 2026-01-05 What this shift means for PEOs, program managers, O-6s, and industry partners I. Why Everything Feels Different If you work in Navy acquisition, you might be a little confused right now. Programs are being consolidated. Offices are shutting down. The Disruptive Capabilities Office is gone. NavalX is gone. The Maritime Accelerated Response Capability Cell is gone. In their place: something called the Department of the Navy Rapid Capabilities Office

By Andrew Park | 2025-10-26 Executive Summary The Project Management Institute's PMBOK Guide 7th Edition (2021) represents a fundamental paradigm shift in how software project management is conceptualized and practiced. This isn't a minor update. PMI has reconceptualized project management to integrate product thinking throughout the standard, moving from a 34 year old process based approach to a principles based, value delivery framework. This shift is most pronounced for so

By Andrew Park | 2025-10-16 The F-35 Joint Program Office adopted Agile-based methods in 2018 and DevSecOps practices shortly thereafter, while Lockheed Martin began implementing Scaled Agile Framework in 2013 and stood up its Software Factory with DevSecOps methodology [Fli20, Dov18, Loc25]. Over a decade of methodology adoption later, the results tell a damning story. In January 2025, the Pentagon's test office reported the F-35 program "has shown no improvement in meeting