Rapid Prototyping, Experimentation and Demonstrati

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 program element 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 program 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 program 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 program 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 program in accordance with the requirements established in Section 216 of the FY2017 National Defense Authorization Act.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 0604030N_4_1319_PB_2019
• Change Summary Explanation: Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• C4I
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Human Systems
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Artificial Intelligence
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Engineering
• Machine Learning
• Multi-Domain Operations
• National Security
• Procurement
• Product Development
• Product Prototyping
• Prototypes
• Software Development
• Software Prototyping
• Task Forces
• Test And Evaluation
• Unmanned Systems
• Weapons

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• AI & ML
• AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
• Autonomy
• Directed Energy
• Hypersonics