Rapid Capability Development and Maturation
Abstract
A portion of this funding line has directly supported the Army Air and Missile Defense Modernization Priority. This project funds high-priority, threat-based projects with the intent to deliver an operationally effective capability in the near- and mid-terms. Efforts will include accelerated materiel development and prototyping based on anticipated and emerging threats and opportunities. Efforts include development, acquisition, assessment, maturation, and transition of prototype technologies to acquisition programs. Efforts include Directed Energy; Long Range Precision Fires; Air and Missile Defense; Cyber; Artificial Intelligence; Signals Intelligence (SIGINT); Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Counter UAS (C-UAS); Communications; Survivability; Robotics; Advanced Ground and Aviation Systems; and other high priority emerging threats and opportunities. Funds may also allow for acceleration of critical capabilities to counter urgent and emerging threats for transition to programs of record. Funding may also be used to acquire specialized expertise to execute an initiative. Prototypes a Human Machine Integrated Formation (HMIF) that exploits advances in robotics and leverages integration enablers of automation and connectivity to enable an agile, dispersed, logistically resilient, lethal formation that can rapidly converge effects to defeat a near-peer enemy with precision and speed. This will prototype and integrate operationally prioritized payloads for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) and lethality with ground and air robotic platforms and formation enablers of networking, command and control, and autonomy to deliver both light unit and heavy unit variants within the H-MIF material solution. Conducts technical assessments of technologies, capabilities, and potential solutions. Such areas include but not limited to Operational Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems, Autonomy Systems, Robotic Platforms, Advanced Sensing Systems, Decoy Capabilities, Extending Communications, Long Range Persistent Surveillance, Advanced Mobile Weapon Systems, and Modular Open System Architectures (MOSA). Develops the transition plan to accelerate priority efforts and other concepts to capabilities for program offices. Continues identification of emerging priority operational gaps that align to technologies that support Army Service Components (ASCs), and operational line units with prototype solutions identified through coordination with US Army Programs of Record, Science and Technology (S&T) programs, and industry partners. The Army Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) expedites residual combat materiel capabilities to the Warfighter to provide critical capability in support of the Army modernization strategy and transitions the capability to an acquisition program for production and fielding as an enduring need. RCCTO assesses Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS), Government Off-The-Shelf (GOTS), and Non-Developmental Item (NDI) (non-standard equipment) solutions for modification and/or integration to address changes in contested environments with materiel solutions for forces deployed globally. RCCTO engages with industry to identify innovative solutions to high priority problem sets and funds quick turn analysis, modeling and prototyping efforts through this project to demonstrate cross-cutting military utility.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- FI3_0605054A_5_2040_PB_2025
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