Defense Acquisition University

And in that process, I met PJ, who's now my right hand in my business.

PJ worked for the Defense Acquisition University.

She had been... a C-suite executive at Lockheed Martin.

She did their whole culture change for three years.

She has compiled what's called the Common Defect Enumeration.

It's available publicly through the Defence Acquisition University.

Essentially, she has cataloged all known failure modes, software failure modes, and there's 10 software failure mode categories.

One of them is error handling.

Today's episode is part two of our discussion with Michael Fischetti, the Executive Director of the National Contract Management Association.

As part one wrapped up, we were discussing the merits of training at generalists versus specialists and the challenges the Defense Acquisition University has in training contract professionals.

In part two, we discussed different types of training rather than just FAR-specific training that may benefit the contracting profession.

Okay, let's pick