The Fast, Inexpensive, Simple, Tiny (FIST) Approach to Acquisition

Team Rogue — Air Force Majors Dan Ward, Chris Quaid, and Gabe Mounce discuss FIST — the Fast, Inexpensive, Simple, Tiny — approach to acquisition, at a July 29, 2009 Defense AT&L magazine Meet-the-Author speaking event. Team Rogue discussed: - Using F.I.S.T. to develop affordable, effective systems that are available when needed - The creative benefits of constraints - Why large budgets, long timelines, and high complexity can lead to technically obsolete and/or operationally irrelevant systems - Applying people-centric FIST values across the an organization Check out the briefing that’s taken other organizations by storm: the Aeronautical Systems Center; the Air Armaments Center; the Air Force Research Lab; the Air Force Institute of Technology; Air Force Materiel Command; and Olin College, Boston.