: Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve
Abstract
To facilitate rapid modernization of the force, the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) initiative was established in the Defense Planning Guidance for Fiscal Year 2023-2027, to encourage multi-component experimentation through a campaign of learning. Services, Agencies, and other participating organizations are to identify “best of breed” capabilities developed among the DoD prototyping programs, and execute approved projects through large-scale experiments in order to implement the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC). Organizations are to nominate proposals to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) that are multi-component – involving Joint Services, International partners and/or other government agencies – and link to one or more of the four key supporting concepts (“functional battles”) of the Joint Warfighting Concept: Joint Concept for Fires, Joint Concept for Command and Control, Joint Concept for Contested Logistics, and Joint Concept for Information Advantage. The Department will implement multiple RDER experimentation series through projects with execution timelines ranging from one to two years. The USD(R&E) will review project progress, and nominate new series at least annually with the goal of quickly incorporating the most promising innovative prototypes into experiments, and promptly terminating projects that fail to achieve expectations. To support a disciplined approach to rapidly identify, incorporate and execute projects the Joint Staff J-7 will assess the degree of alignment for the proposals against the concepts for USD (R&E).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 001_0604331J_4_0400_PB_2024
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