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Pentagon

DoD May Issue Rapid Prototyping/Defense Acquisition Reform Plan This Week

Frank Wolfe

Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

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DoD May Issue Rapid Prototyping/Defense Acquisition Reform Plan This Week

A Kazhan bomber hexacopter assigned to the 25th Airborne Brigade of Ukraine is pictured on July 2nd last year (Ukraine Ministry of Defense Photo)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may issue a memorandum on rapid prototyping and acquisition reform this week, as the Pentagon considers scaling up the work of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). "All the way back to, if you look at what Ellen Lord did when she was in the role [of DoD acquisition chief from 2017-2021], she started to look at different acquisition pathways," Matthew Schlueter, the Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) global sector lead for defense and security, told a Defense…

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