Rapid, iterative approach to capability development will reduce costs, technological obsolescence, and acquisition risk.

The Department will realign incentive and reporting structures to increase speed of delivery, enable design tradeoffs in the requirement process, expand the role of warfighters and intelligence analyses throughout the acquisition process, and utilize non-traditional suppliers.

Prototyping and experimentation should be used prior to defining requirements and commercial-off-the-shelf systems.

Platform electronics and software must be designed for routine replacement instead of static configurations that last more than a decade.

This approach, a major departure from previous practices and culture, will allow the Department to more quickly respond to changes in the security environment and make it harder for competitors to offset our systems.