Tech Transition Program

Abstract

The Tech Transition Program provides funding to demonstrate, prototype, and experiment with technologies and concepts to enable or accelerate their transition to acquisition programs and/or operational use. The Technology Transition Program addresses the gap between initial technology or concept development and demonstration, and successful acquisition and operational capability implementation. Experimentation explores new concepts and their applications in potential future operating environments within a system-of-systems context. Prototyping enables integration and demonstration of emerging technologies to quickly move them into warfighting capability. The Tech Transition Program allows acquisition program managers (the capability developers) and warfighters (the capability recipients and end users) to prototype, integrate, and demonstrate candidate technologies and assess them in an operational environment in partnership with Program Executive Officers, schoolhouses, simulation facilities, and development planning organizations. In addition, this program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver future weapons system capabilities. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605831F. The FY 2021 funding request was reduced by $17.830 million to account for availability of prior year execution balances. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
0604858F_4_3600_PB_2021
Change Summary Explanation
Increase in FY 2019 of $1.500 million due to reprogramming for human resource software prototype. Decrease in FY 2021 of $61.243 million due to reduced emphasis in prototyping due to higher Department of Defense and Air Force priorities and to account for availability of prior year execution balances and Department of Defense inflationary factors.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Additive Manufacturing
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Emerging Technology
  • Infrastructure
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Manufacturing
  • Military Applications
  • Multi-Domain Operations
  • Product Development
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

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