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Title: | Closing the Innovation Gap at SOCOM |
Authors: | Greg Ingram |
Keywords: | SOCOM Innovation Gap Federal Acquisition Process Broad Area Announcement BAA SOFWERX |
Issue Date: | 13-May-2019 |
Publisher: | Acquisition Research Program |
Citation: | Published--Unlimited Distribution |
Series/Report no.: | Acquisition Management SYM-AM-19-081 |
Abstract: | Doing business with the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) can be difficult. There are a number of physical and regulatory hoops to jump through: getting on MacDill Air Force Base, getting into the SOCOM compound, and the prohibition of electronic devices on the compound, just to name a few. Not to mention the intricacies of the federal acquisition process, which could take more than a year from Broad Area Announcement (BAA) to contract award. To address these hurdles in a rapidly changing technological environment, SOCOM, in conjunction with the Doolittle Institute (now DEFENSEWERX), created SOFWERX: An unclassified facility where Special Operations operators can bring their requirements and be tested out and rapidly prototyped (https://www.sofwerx.org/). Once down selected, they can then move into a SOCOM Program of Record and be fast-tracked into the acquisition process. This compression of the Concept Development to Prototype phases vastly increases the time to product deployment. |
Description: | Acquisition Management / Defense Acquisition Community Contributor |
URI: | https://dair.nps.edu/handle/123456789/1773 |
Appears in Collections: | Annual Acquisition Research Symposium Proceedings & Presentations |
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