AFWERX Prime

Abstract

The Department of the Air Force's component of the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) is executed within this program element (PE). To facilitate rapid modernization of the force, the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) initiative was established in the Defense Planning Guidance for Fiscal Years 2023-2027, to encourage multi-component experimentation through a campaign of learning. Services, Agencies, and other participating organizations are to identify "best of breed” capabilities developed among the DoD prototyping programs, and execute approved projects through large-scale, cross- service experiments in order to refine and/or validate the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC). Organizations 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 and 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.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 640858_0604025F_4_3600_PB_2025

Tags

Readers

• Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control