Accelerating Defense Acquisition: Faster Acquisitions Produce a Stronger Force

Abstract

As the 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) says, the United States has entered a new era of great power competition with the rise of China and a resurgent Russia. Further, the technical advantage the U.S. military has long maintained over its competitors is steadily eroding, as our competitors have the same access to the globalized technology marketplace driving innovation that we do. Commercially driven breakthroughs in new technologies artificial intelligence, advanced autonomy, robotics are changing the very character of war. That our competitors have access to these same technologies risks eroding the conventional overmatch to which our military has grown accustomed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1107990

Entities

People

  • Daniel R. Ward
  • Pete Modigliani

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agile Software Development
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Procurement
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Contracts
  • Cycles
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Life Cycles
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Personality
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • United States Special Operations Command

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Strategic Security Studies

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
  • Autonomy