Warfighter Rapid Acquisition Program

Abstract

The Warfighter Rapid Acquisition Process (WRAP) provides rapid transition funding for the development and fielding of highly successful competitive experiments, demonstrations, and innovative approaches to support the Expeditionary Air Force (EAF) and other warfighters. WRAP supports the specific DoD goal of significantly shortening the acquisition response time and acquisition cycle times. This process is expected to shorten the project decision/initiation time by 2-5 years for selected projects due to the integrated headquarters review and immediate availability of transition funding. The WRAP process is specifically designed to deal with initiatives throughout the fiscal year as they arise resulting in a sequential distribution of WRAP funding over the course of that entire execution year. The WRAP process allows the Air Force the flexibility to acquire innovative concepts and initiatives and transition them to the warfighter annually in a manner that coincides with Air Forces' development of the President's Budget. Candidate projects will compete for WRAP approval and funds based on business case analyses, actual or potential operational impacts, cost savings, project development, production, lifecycle costs, project risk and cost of delay. The Air Force, through appropriate program offices, will manage the acquisition and development process for the integration and fielding of WRAP-approved projects. Each project will have a complete acquisition plan defined and approved as a criterion for project selection and subsequent funding. Each sponsoring Major Command/Agency must to commit full project funding in the subsequent programming cycle. Congress will be notified when all projects have been approved by the end of the current fiscal year via Congressional Notification Letters. This effort is Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development, because the program provides a vehicle for developing operational concepts and new technologies for enhancing capabilities of the 21st century aerospace force.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2012
Source ID
0203761F_7_3600_PB_2012
Change Summary Explanation
FY12 decrease...
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Availability
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Congress
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Demonstrations
  • Production
  • Resilience
  • Spiral Development
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transitions

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting

Technology Areas

  • Space

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