Improving Intelligence Support to the Future Warfighter: Acquisition for the Contested Environment
Abstract
The United States faces new and increasingly sophisticated threats from peer and near-peer adversaries. The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) 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." General Charles Q. Brown argues 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. This report addresses the challenge of threat informed acquisition in a contested environment and offers recommendations to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of Air Force intelligence support to the acquisition community to improve existing and future acquisition strategies and programs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2021
- Accession Number
- AD1152679
Entities
People
- Bradley Knopp
- Cynthia R. Cook
- David Luckey
- Don Casler
- Hilary Reininger
- Karen M. Sudkamp
- Yousuf Abdelfatah
- Yuliya Shokh
Organizations
- RAND Corporation