Improving Intelligence Support to the Future Warfighter: Acquisition for the Contested Environment

Abstract

Unlike in the preceding two decades of combat operations in the Middle East, the United States now faces new and increasingly sophisticated threats from peer and near-peer adversaries. The 2018 National Defense Strategy describes an "increasingly complex global security environment, characterized by overt challenges to the free and open international order and the re-emergence of long-term, strategic competition between nations." The Chief of Staff of the Air Force has argued that in response the Air Force needs to accelerate its improvements to meet and, to the extent possible, counter these threats or risk losing the next major war. That necessitates having an acquisition system that is postured to produce the weapon systems that can "fly, fight and win" against capable adversaries that pose a threat, both currently and in the future.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1152678

Entities

People

  • Bradley Knopp
  • Cynthia R. Cook
  • David Luckey
  • Don Casler
  • Hilary Reininger
  • Karen M. Sudkamp
  • Yousuf Abdelfatah
  • Yuliya Shokh

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Classified Materials
  • Combat Operations
  • Combat Readiness
  • Delphi Method
  • Employment
  • Engineering
  • Information Exchange
  • Intelligence Community
  • Leadership
  • Middle East
  • Motivation
  • National Security
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Strategic Security Studies