{"product_id":"contracting-for-rapid-acquisition-lorna-e-tedder-9798184828398","title":"Contracting for Rapid Acquisition: A Practical \u0026 Personal Guide to Disrupting the Status Quo for a More Responsive Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Federal acquisition system hasn't changed as much as you think. And neither have the people trying to fix it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2025, Lorna E. Tedder shelved this book before publication. The government landscape had shifted dramatically as the result of leadership changes, regulatory rewrites, and upheaval at every level. She wondered if three decades of hard-won acquisition expertise had suddenly become obsolete. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen she remembered 2014. And 2007. And 2001. And 1995. She'd lived through this exact scenario before. The same problems, under new names, with new people who were just as certain they were the first to encounter them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSo she published the book anyway. The best of the best of her acquisition advice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eContracting for Rapid Acquisition \u003c\/i\u003e is not a regulatory guide, a policy manual, or an innovation manifesto. It's what thirty-plus years as a Federal contracting professional, with rapid acquisition as her special sauce, actually looks like when distilled into the frameworks and mindsets that outlast every regime change, every new administration, and every round of acquisition reform. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat you'll find inside: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Trifecta of Effectiveness\u003c\/b\u003e - the three-pronged concept that separates contracting officers who get things done from those who process paperwork\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Crumblestones of Acquisition\u003c\/b\u003e - six structural weak points that show up in every acquisition organization, regardless of budget or leadership\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Fourth Turning lens\u003c\/b\u003e - a framework for understanding where we are in the historical cycle of acquisition reform, and why the current chaos is not unprecedented\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHow to set up your own rapid contracting office\u003c\/b\u003e - the pattern-reading, portfolio-building, team-developing approach Tedder used to build an office that turned studies to contract, solving urgent needs in record time, but without heroics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a book for people who have already decided nothing will work. It's for contracting professionals who want to move faster, for program managers who want to be better partners, and for anyone in the acquisition ecosystem who has ever sensed that there has to be a better way - and was right. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLorna E. Tedder spent more than thirty-five years in Federal acquisition, retiring as a Department of Defense contracting officer before spending five years as an Agile Acquisition Subject Matter Expert supporting multiple agencies.. She is the originator of acquisition techniques that have been adopted across the defense community, a past frequent speaker at acquisition conferences, and the author of multiple books across fiction and nonfiction. She writes at the intersection of lived experience and enduring principle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lorna E. Tedder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184828398\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d","brand":"Lorna E. Tedder","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49002318561535,"sku":"9798184828398","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/contracting-for-rapid-acquisition-lorna-e-tedder-9798184828398","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}