Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Support

Abstract

The Fund for Innovative Results and Execution (FIRE) combines three industrial base programs focused on innovation, urgent needs and accelerated deployment. The program element is inherited from the Title 10-directed Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment (IBAS) program (Title 10 USC Section 2508.) The other two programs formerly existed as congressional plus-ups, the Industrial Base Innovation Fund (IBIF) and the National Security Technology Accelerator. FIRE makes investments in manufacturing research and development that address any of the following areas: 1)Urgent production requirements and diminishing defense manufacturing sources and material shortages, and a sustainable defense design team base; 2) Model-based engineering and integrated computational materials engineering; and 3) New, innovative technologies being developed through public-private partnerships. The FIRE addresses strategic shortfalls especially surge production and diminishing sources and is intended to address these specific shortcomings by applying a broad range of tools to amplify interest from non-traditional suppliers and accelerate implementation via experimentation, demonstration and rapid transition. FIRE projects will be structured with an enhanced focus on competition, timeliness, and transition to operation. These FIRE projects will be chosen from documented industrial base issues in consultation with the Services and Agencies. Projects will address needs that span several Services and Agencies. Buy-in and planning will be critical elements in terms of attracting interest to start a project and transiting from an innovative idea to reality. Projects will require substantial pre-negotiated paths from problem identification through incorporation into a real product or system. Congressional guidance for industrial base investment often addresses urgency. The FIRE program will pursue innovation in acquisition as well as technology. There will be a special emphasis on reaching non-traditional suppliers as sources of innovation. Non-traditional and under-utilized funding mechanisms, such as Other Transaction Authority (OTA), will be emphasized.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0607210D8Z_7_0400_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
The reduction in FY 2018 is a result of SRRB- Service Requirement Review Board and DTIC Offset - As part of the Department of Defense reform agenda, the incremental reduction accounts for consolidation and reduction of service contracts and the DTIC Offset required to help sustain that program.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

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  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Advanced Materials
  • Attitude Control Systems
  • Bipolar Junction Transistors
  • Carbon Fibers
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Reductions
  • Department Of Defense
  • Detection
  • Energetic Materials
  • Materials
  • Materials Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • National Security
  • Rocket Engines
  • Rockets

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  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Economics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

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