Recent Executive Orders and Directives require the Department of Defense (DoD) to prioritize innovation in the commercial marketplace and streamline processes to rapidly deliver solutions to our warfighters. Success for achieving DoD priorities, such as Golden Dome for America, Border Security, and Autonomous Systems, will depend on innovative industry solutions—combining new approaches with today’s capabilities and bringing in non-traditional industry partners, quickly and flexibly.
Breaking Barriers: Accelerating Innovation Adoption for Defense Priorities
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This paper presents a framework to accelerate innovation adoption for Department of Defense priorities by streamlining acquisition processes and leveraging commercial industry capabilities.
It identifies key barriers—fragmented processes, slow timelines, and limited access for non-traditional partners—and proposes solutions including precise mission gap identification, early industry engagement, rapid prototyping, improved digital and physical infrastructure, and agile acquisition methods.
By aligning mission needs with commercial innovation and enabling faster, more flexible procurement, the approach aims to deliver advanced capabilities to warfighters quickly and strengthen the defense industrial base.