The Potomac Institute Press is pleased to announce that Bureaucratic Nirvana: Life in the Center of the Box, by Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Senior Fellow Hugh Montgomery, is now available in a Kindle edition. In Bureaucratic Nirvana, Montgomery draws on his four decades of experience to present a "how-to" primer for Pentagon contractors, administrators and researchers seeking a better understanding of the R&D bureaucracy.  Look for Bureaucratic Nirvana in Amazon's online Kindle store, or just click here to access the Kindle listing.

Potomac Institute for Policy Studies Board of Regents Member and Senior Fellow John Young is a strong advocate for procurement reform within the Department of Defense. Young, a former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, writes in the current issue of Defense News about reverse auctioning, a purchasing option he says creates greater efficiency while saving significant sums of taxpayer dollars. Click here to read the article in full.    

Amb. David J. Smith (Ret.) is a Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and the Director of the Georgian Security Analysis Center, Tbilisi, Georgia. In a recent article for the Georgian publication Tabula,  he writes about the challenges the US and allies have in dealing with Russia as they try to adhere to the new "reset" philosophy.  Writes Amb. Smith, "The west—bits of it, at least—is experiencing reset dilemma," and must settle on a reasonable strategy. Click below to read the article in full.

Prof. James Giordano, PhD, is the Director of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies' Center for Neurotechnology Studies. In a recent issue of the physicians' journal Practical Pain Management, he writes about the challenges facing practitioners of pain medicine, in light of evolving views of pain disorders and drug abuse. Prof. Giordano describes how these changing views are reflected in the upcoming Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, and how they might affect physicians' decisions to prescribe certain pain medications. Click below to read the article in full.