Rapid Acquisition Pathways
Acquisition professionals have multiple rapid acquisition pathways to deliver capabilities.
Section 804 Middle Tier Acquisition
- Field a prototype in an operational environment within 5 years
- Field production quantities with min development within 5 years
Section 806 Weapon System Prototype
- SAE’s most promising, innovative, and cost-effective prototypes
- Deliver within 2 years, <$10M (or $50M w/Secretary approval)
Accelerated Acquisition
- When schedule dominate, aggressively tailor 5000 (see Model 4)
- Use when technology surprise by an adversary drives risk taking
Urgent Capability Acquisition
- Fulfill urgent operational needs within 2 years, below ACAT I
- JUONs, UONs, JEONs via 5000.02 Enclosure 13
DoD will develop a culture of rapid and meaningful innovation, streamline requirements
and acquisition processes, and promote responsible risk-taking and personal initiative.
Rapid Acquisition Reports
- Future Foundry, CNAS, Dec 2016
- Leveraging Commercial Technology (Mobility), CNAS, Dec 2016
- The Role of Experimentation Campaigns in the Air Force Innovation Life Cycle, National Academies of Science, 2016
- Speed and Agility – How DoD Acquisition Can Enable Innovation and Rapid Technology Insertion, Briefing, MITRE, May 2016
- 12 Months In – 8 Months Left An Update on Secretary Carter’s Innovation Agenda, CNAS, Apr 2016
- Innovation is a Contract Sport, Booz Allen Hamilton, Feb 2016
- Global R&D Funding Forecast
- National R&D – Gov’t vs Industry
- Keeping the Technological Edge (Briefing, Report, Video), CSIS, Sep 2015
- NDIA Pathway to Transformation, Nov 2014
- Presentation on Innovation and Private Sector, Defense Business Board, Jul 2014
- Innovation and Private Sector Report, Defense Business Board, Jul 2014
- Defense R&E Strategy, ASD R&E, May 2014
- Rapid Acquisition of Army C2 Systems, RAND, 2014
- Technology and Innovation Enablers for Superiority in 2030, Defense Science Board (DSB), Oct 2013
- Public Private Collaboration in the DoD, Defense Business Board, 2012
- Rapid Acquisition and Fielding of Materiel Solutions by the Navy, DoD IG, 2009
Rapid Acquisition Articles
- Faster, smarter: Speed is key in acquisition reform, Air Force, Feb 2019
- Don’t Play Mob Ball: What Acquisition Pros Can Learn from Kids Soccer, DefenseOne, Jan 2019
- Sci-Fi Acquisition: The Wrath Of Mid-Tier Krog, Breaking Defense, Dec 2018
- Mattis sees need for new space programs, Space News, Sep 2017
- Bridging the Valley of Death, Tony Davis, Tom Ballenger, Jan 2017
- When and When Not to Accelerate Acquisition, Frank Kendall, Nov 2016
- Intel Community joining DoD in Silicon Valley, Breaking Defense, May 2016
- SOFWERX: Newest Acquisition Tool for Special Operators, National Defense Magazine, May 2016
- Forget Technology. The Real Military Edge Comes From Promoting Smart People, Defense One, May 2016
- The US Needs More Weapons That Can Be Quickly and Easily Modified, Defense One, Apr 2016
- As Pentagon Dawdles, Silicon Valley Sells Its Newest Tech Abroad, Defense One, Apr 2016
- Three Ways to Judge the Pentagon’s Tech-Sector Outreach, Defense One, Apr 2016
- Google Executive Schmidt To Head New DoD Advisory Board, Defense News, Mar 2016
- Veil of secrecy lifted on Pentagon office planning ‘Avatar’ fighters and drone swarms (SCO), Washington Post, Mar 2016
- New Navy Procurement Office (MACO), Marines to Push Rapid Innovation In 2016, USNI News, Mar 2016
- Accelerating Innovation By Breaking Up Contracts: SBIR & Beyond, Breaking Defense, Feb 2016
- DoD’s top research official (Steve Welby) is bridging gap with Silicon Valley, Fed News Radio, Feb 2016
- DHS Opens Silicon Valley Office in Search of Innovation, National Defense Magazine, Feb 2016
- Beyond Offset – A series that aims to build a community-of-interest that will address the challenges of maintaining America’s competitive edge in military technology and advance solutions.
- Faster Than Thought: DARPA, Artificial Intelligence, & The Third Offset Strategy, Breaking Defense, Feb 2016
- Secretive SOCOM Opens Up to Private Sector, National Defense Magazine, Jan 2016
- Is the US Military’s Plan to Keep Its Edge Fatally Flawed?, Robert Haddick, War on the Rocks, Jan 2016
- Navy to Try Fast Acquisition Approach, Breaking Defense, Jan 2016
- Navy Building New Office to Short Circuit Traditional DoD Acquisition Approach, FedNewsRadio, Jan 2016
- R&D strategy leverages innovation, partnerships, Wright Patt AFB news, Jan 2016
- DOD Head Ashton Carter Enlists Silicon Valley to Transform the Military, Wired, Nov 2015
- America’s Victory Disease Has Left It Dangerously Deluded, War on the Rocks, Nov 2015
- Centaur Army: Bob Work, Robotics, & The Third Offset Strategy, Breaking Defense, Nov 2015
- It is Time for the US Military to Innovate Like Insurgents, War on the Rocks, Oct 2015
- Carter Seeks Balance of Old, New Innovation, Sep 2015
- Fast Track Program Invites Non-Traditional Roboticists to Help Bolster National Security, DARPA, May 2015
- Fast Paced Technologies Passing by Military’s Acquisition Culture, DoD Buzz, Mar 2015
- Top 10 Disruptive Technologies for a New Era of Global Instability, National Defense Magazine, Nov 2014
- A New Defense Innovation Base, War on the Rocks, Aug 2014
- Hacking Defense: Changing How DoD Innovates, War on the Rocks, Jun 2014
- Build Fast, Effective Acquisition: Avoid The System We’ve Got, Breaking Defense, Apr 2014
- “Special Forces” Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems, HBR, Oct 2013
- Quick Wins Show the Benefits of DOD’s Rapid Acquisition Program, Federal News Radio, Jun 2012
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