Title page
Contents
Introduction 7
Foreword 9
Overview 11
Recommendation 1: Introduce a new capability portfolio model in 2024 13
Recommendation 2: Consolidate program elements 14
Recommendation 3: Reset reprogramming authorities 15
Recommendation 4: Modernize DoD to align with the twenty-first century industrial base 16
Recommendation 5: Strengthen alignment of capital market to defense outcomes 17
Recommendation 6: Incentivize tech companies to do business with DoD 19
Recommendation 7: Modernize budget documents 20
Recommendation 8: Establish bridge fund for successfully demonstrated technologies 21
Recommendation 9: Scale the Space Development Agency (SDA) model 22
Recommendation 10: Modernize the DoD's requirements system 22
Vignettes: What success looks like 24
Vignette 1: Leveraging operational innovation and experimentation to demonstrate the value of commercial capabilities to meet operational needs 24
Vignette 2: Purposeful experimentation and scaling SBIRs for more rapid and well-aligned tech adoption 25
Vignette 3: Tying experimentation to acquisition outcomes and leveraging DIU commercial-landscape monitoring 26
Vignette 4: Pivoting to modern information-technology capability portfolio management 27
Vignette 5: Modernizing capability requirements 28
Vignette 6: Communicating demand signal to leverage commercial-sector innovation and adopt private-sector best practices 28
Vignette 7: Leveraging warfighting insights and commercial product vision to develop new innovative products 29
Vignette 8: Incorporating robust user feedback with government and private seed funding to deliver unique commercial capability 30
Implementation Actions to Date 32
Conclusion 34
Biographies 35
Acknowledgments 39
List of Acronyms 40