Tech Transition Program
Abstract
The Tech Transition Program addresses the gap between initial system-level technology or concept development and demonstration, and successful acquisition and operational capability implementation. The Tech Transition Program matures new warfighting concepts, rapidly develops fieldable prototypes, and performs experimentation to assess military utility of transition-ready weapon systems. This program utilizes multiple approaches and integrated activities to field technology for the warfighter. The Tech Transition Program reduces risk in emerging technology markets by partnering with industries through Prime investments and providing access to Government analysis, testing and certification capabilities. Prime investments focus on Government-Industry partnerships to influence and militarize emerging commercial capabilities to ensure US competitive advantage in key technology areas. Experimentation efforts explore new concepts and their applications in potential future operating environments within a system-of-systems context taking risks early in the acquisition process to drive a more optimized and efficient acquisition approach significantly reducing overall acquisitions costs. One of these experimentation efforts is the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) to encourage multi-component experimentation through a campaign of learning. Prototyping enables integration and demonstration of emerging technologies to quickly move them into warfighting capability. Following strategic guidance the Department of the Air Force has institutionalized Experimentation and Prototyping to achieve smarter, faster, and more efficient acquisitions that move technologies rapidly into the most critical warfighting capabilities. 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 system of systems environment in partnership with Combatant Commanders, Major and Field Commands, Program Executive Officers, schoolhouses, simulation facilities, and development planning organizations. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F, 0605831F, and/or 0606017F. In FY 2022, $2.984 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2023, $3.136 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 0604858F_4_3600_PB_2023
- Change Summary Explanation
- The FY 2022 President's Budget submittal did not reflect FY 2023 through FY 2026 funding. Therefore, an explanation of the change between the two budget positions for FY2023 cannot be made in a relevant manner.
- Service Agency Name
- Air Force
Entities
Organizations
- United States Air Force
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