“Along the way, we’ve never wavered from our ultimate objective: delivering safe and reliable, combat-credible capabilities at speed and scale to America’s warfighters — so they can deter aggression and win if called to fight,” Hicks shared during a recent summit in Washington, D.C.
To support this goal, Hicks underscored that DOD seeks to implement a fast-moving cycle to speed up the deployment of selected warfighting capabilities “to the right people at the right time.”
Hicks described the process as “a warfighter-defined investment funnel” incorporating new operational concepts, prototyping and experimentation, rapid acquisition pathways, opportunities to enter the market and a more level playing field.
“To bridge the lab-to-prototype and prototype-to-scale valleys of death, we’re using more flexible acquisition pathways for rapid prototyping, rapid fielding and software development,” Hicks said.
Register here to join today’s10th Annual Defense R&D Summit. The Potomac Officers Club invited government and industry leaders to discuss the latest developments in the defense technology sector.
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