Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve
Abstract
To facilitate rapid modernization of the force, the RDER initiative was established in the Defense Planning Guidance for Fiscal Year 2023-2027, to encourage multi-component experimentation through a campaign of learning. Fiscal Year 2022 funding for RDER was congressionally added to the RPP PE. RDER funding was transferred to PE 0604790D8Z in Fiscal Year 2023. Services, Agencies, and other participating organizations are to identify “best of breed” capabilities developed among DoD prototyping programs, and execute approved projects through large-scale experiments in order to refine and/or validate the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC). Organizations are to nominate proposals to the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) that are multi-component – involving Joint Services, International partners and/or other government agencies. These proposals should link to one or more of the four key supporting concepts (“functional battles”) of the Joint Warfighting Concept: Joint Concept for Fires, Joint Concept for Command and Control, Joint Concept for Contested Logistics, and Joint Concept for Information Advantage. The Department will implement multiple RDER experimentation series through Service nominated projects with execution timelines ranging from one to two years. The OUSD(R&E) will review project progress, recommend new projects at least annually with the goal of quickly incorporating the most promising innovative prototypes into experiments, and promptly terminate projects that fail to achieve expectations. To incentivize a disciplined approach to rapidly identify, incorporate, and execute projects largely through the Military Services, the Department will fund approved Service projects for the upcoming fiscal year out of the Department reserves. Funding decisions on additional funds in follow-on years for new projects, and funding decrements for project terminations, will be incorporated in budgets annually based on emerging requirements and periodic assessments of project viability. Services will execute these funds under oversight of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) in a manner consistent with the experimentation scenario for which individual projects were selected.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- 073_0604331D8Z_4_0400_PB_2024
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