The plan lays out three lines of efforts: accelerating the development of joint warfighting capabilities, fielding capabilities at speed and scale, and ensuring the foundations for research and development through workforce development and upgrading physical and digital infrastructure.
By Jaspreet GillTake lessons learned from joint exercises and turn them into capabilities
The real advantage comes when legacy, new, next generation and cutting-edge systems can work together in the battlespace.
“So you can have something that the chief wants that will solve the problem, but if you don’t have a way to sell it in a way that the government can buy it – and then the challenge is not, you know, in many cases the buyer isn’t the customer,” James Guerts said. “And so I think where the services are really working hard is to compress that so the buyer and the customer are more closely aligned.”
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“I think it’s important to understand as long as we have funding, we’re always interested, whoever has a great idea that has a prototype you can bring to the table to demo,” Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, told reporters.
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“APFIT holds great promise to transform the way the Department procures next generations solutions,” Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said. “This pilot program is well positioned to be a key asset as we continue to work to bridge the valley of death.”
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