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Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said Tuesday the new rapid experimentation campaign to address joint warfighting capability gaps is aimed at solving the department’s “complicated system” for transitioning promising new technologies into actual programs. Hicks told the Defense Writers Group the new Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER) program to fund the emerging technology experimentation is part of a concerted effort to address the department’s “infamous valley of death” challenge. “RDER is, more than anything, a process inside the building we…
