Rapid Prototype Development
Abstract
Department of Navy (DON) leadership has acknowledged that maintaining maritime superiority depends in part on our ability to accelerate the speed of warfighting and technological innovations in order to extend our advantage to offset our adversaries' growing capabilities. It is fundamental to the DON's efforts to improve our acquisition outcomes. This project is aligned with, and in direct response to, calls for increased prototyping and experimentation in USD(AT&L)'s Better Buying Power 3.0, Secretary of the Navy's (SECNAV) Task Force Innovation direction, and the CNO direction to achieve High Velocity Learning at Every Level. These efforts will reinvigorate and increase the use of prototyping to rapidly field new warfighting capabilities, concepts and technologies, and engineering solutions. The Rapid Prototype Development project funds a strategic focus on rapid prototyping of innovative combat system technologies and engineering innovations to explore Fleet-proposed capability concepts and needs, as well as foster advancements in naval warfighting capabilities. With an emphasis on rapidly prototyping mature technologies, the project is intended to expedite the development, exploration and fielding of technology and engineering prototypes to provide advanced warfighting capabilities, new technologies and engineering innovations across all Naval warfighting domains. Concepts and enabling technologies include but are not limited to; directed energy weapons, hypersonics, unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and multi-domain operations. Specific projects under this project number will be selected and executed in accordance with the Department of the Navy (DoN) Accelerated Acquisition Process as described in SECNAVINST 5000.42. The Secretary of the Navy will notify Congress prior to initiation of a project under this project number in accordance with the requirements established in Section 216 of the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 0385_0604030N_4_1319_PB_2019
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