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Part 2 of 11 · Inside DoW New GovCon staff use these three terms interchangeably. It costs them real standing in the room.

Part 2 of 11 · Inside DoW New GovCon staff use these three terms interchangeably. It costs them real standing in the room. Not because the people across the table are pedantic, but because the words point to genuinely different things. Walking into Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for the first time in the summer of 1992, I assumed the vocabulary problem was the acronyms. AFRL. AFMC. AFOSR. OPR. POC. Dozens of them, everywhere. What I didn't realize was that some of the plain English words were just as loaded. Department. Service. Branch. The people around me used them with precision. I…

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