Quick Reaction Fund
Abstract
The Quick Reaction Special Projects (QSRP) Program supports four separate projects that provide rapid funding to expedite development and transition of new prototypical technologies to the warfighter. The QSRP Program provides the flexibility to mitigate emerging threats and addresses needs that arise outside the two-year budget cycle. The Quick Reaction Fund (QRF) Program provides the Services, components, Combatant Commands (COCOMs), and force providers opportunities to capitalize on technologies that are at a relatively high level of technical maturity and to rapidly field-test promising new proof of principle prototypes that can have immediate impact on military operations. QRF initiatives are limited to those that will deliver a prototype application within 12 months of being funded. The QRF Program focuses on projects that have the potential to address conventional, disruptive, catastrophic, and irregular threats. More specifically, initiatives that serve to maintain a technical advantage over potential adversaries and reduce technical risk barriers in the following interest areas: counter anti-access and area denial capabilities; base protection; electromagnetic bandwidth and spectrum enhancement; persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; newly emerging national threats; directed energy capabilities; low-cost precision engagement capabilities; operational field demonstrations; unmanned and robotics systems; counter weapons of mass destruction capabilities; and counter-electronic warfare technologies. In FY 2015 and FY 2016, the QRF Program will continue to identify and fund new projects and prototypes that respond to critical operational needs and emerging threats. Current and future efforts that show significant effectiveness can be leveraged by additional investments in order to accelerate transition to operational forces.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- P826_0603826D8Z_3_0400_PB_2016
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