UNDERSTANDING ARMY ACQUISITION
SEAMLESS WAVEFORMS
The Rapid Innovation Fund enables the military and nontraditional contractors to work together.
by Kathryn Bailey A
s DOD seeks to spur development of new technology, its Rapid Innovation Fund provides the financial backing for the military to work with nontra- ditional defense contractors to bring promising capabilities to fruition. Lt. Col. Brian Wong, chief of market research for the U.S. Army Network
Cross-Functional Team (N-CFT), and Dr. Sayeed Hasan, chief engineer for Product Manager Waveforms, assigned to the Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications – Tactical (PEO C3T), explained the process and preliminary outcome of their first Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF 2017) effort during a conversation conducted before the contract award.
Te cross-functional team and PEO C3T are using DOD’s Rapid Innovation Fund, which is intended to rapidly prototype and experiment with novel ideas from industry, and then deliver those capabilities into the hands of Soldiers in less than 12 months. Tey are currently implementing four separate Rapid Innovation Fund efforts.
Te fund is administered by the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and the DOD Office of Small Business Programs to provide an avenue for nontradi- tional vendors to work with Army programs of record to rapidly insert their technologies into acquisition programs to meet specific defense needs.
PEO C3T and the cross-functional team recently culminated RIF 2017, in which they teamed with the 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment (1/504 PIR), 1st Brigade Combat Team, part of the 82nd Airborne Division, to assess several commercial waveforms as part of an automated failover primary, alternate, contingency and emer- gency plan for Soldiers (automated failover is the process of automatically moving an application to a standby server in the event of a system compromise). Wong provided oversight of the entire operation, while Hasan coordinated radio training and operations.
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