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HOW RELEVANT IS SPEED?


MILITARY OPTION


China’s “doctrine of ‘civil-military fusion’ requires that any commercial or academic technological advancement with military implications be shared with” the People’s Liberation Army, wrote Michèle Flournoy, former undersecretary of defense for policy. As China recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, about 2,000 Chinese and foreign enterprises prepare to participate in the China International Fair for Trade in Services, held from May 28 to June 1 each year in Beijing. (Photo by Lintao Zhang, Getty Images)


increase from $950 million in the 2015 fiscal year to $7.7 billion in the 2019 fiscal year, with the U.S. Army leading the way ($4.5 billion that fiscal year). More can be done.


Innovative commercial companies typically connect with DOD through consortia, aligned by focus areas, such as cyber, space, undersea, propulsion, etc. Tese consortia establish streamlined procedures to more quickly evaluate ideas and proposals than traditional processes based on the Federal Acquisition Regula- tion. However, the method by which the government has decided to fund these consortia places an unfortunate disincentive for companies to participate. To join a consortium, these nontra- ditional vendors, nonprofits and academic organizations must pay an application fee and membership dues, initial and annual, as well as provide a percentage of their profit to the consortium manager.


In this race to technology dominance, these barriers may just dissuade the right company with the right technology to make its war-winning and war-deterring difference from participating.


To attract versus merely allow, why not conduct a competitive source selection for each focus area and pay the consortium manager for its services? Tis would alleviate any negative finan- cial considerations for innovative, nontraditional entities from submitting their ideas and proposals. For each contract awarded, the consortium manager also would receive a bonus payment, providing incentive to actively pursue and evaluate a maxi- mum number of companies and organizations operating in its focus area.


Design for commercialization. Initiated by Congress with the National Defense Authorization Act for the 2011 fiscal year, the Design Exportability Features Pilot Program has evolved into a requirement in the recent DOD Instruction 5000.85, “Major Capability Acquisition.” Starting with milestone A, the proposed acquisition strategy is to include “design[ing] the system for exportability to foreign partners, except when the program has an MDA [milestone-decision authority]-approved waiver allowing for a U.S.-only design,” while also requiring the milestone-decision authority to “notify the USD A&S and the requirements-validation authority.”


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