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🚨 Major Reform in Defense Acquisition and Requirements 🚨 On August 20, 2025, the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense issued a landmark memorandum reshaping how the Department identifies, funds, and fields critical warfighting capabilities. 🔑 Key Changes Include: ·      Disestablishing JCIDS: Shifting responsibility for requirements to the Services and freeing the Joint Staff to focus on strategic priorities. ·      Re-orienting the JROC: Now tasked with identifying and ranking the Joint Force’s most pressing Key Operational Problems (KOPs) annually. ·      Launching the RRAB: A new Requirements and Resourcing Alignment Board co-chaired by the DepSecDef and VCJCS to tie requirements directly to resources. ·      Standing up the MEIA: Mission Engineering and Integration Activity to drive rapid industry engagement, experimentation, and integration. ·      Creating the Joint Acceleration Reserve (JAR): Dedicated funding to bridge the “valley of death” and accelerate delivery of impactful capabilities. 💡 The Vision: A faster, more agile, and more integrated process that aligns requirements, resourcing, and industry innovation to deliver capabilities at the speed of relevance. #DefenseInnovation #NationalSecurity #DoD #AcquisitionReform

🚀 Exciting News! Precise Systems is proud to announce the acquisition of Mission Focused Systems Inc. (MFS) — expanding our ability to deliver mission-ready solutions that support the Warfighter. MFS brings decades of expertise in systems engineering, cybersecurity, research, experimentation, prototyping, and program management across defense and intelligence communities. Together, we’re strengthening our capabilities in advanced engineering, digital transformation, interactive training & simulation, and platform lifecycle support. This milestone marks another step forward in our growth strategy with Bluestone Investment Partners and reinforces our commitment to innovation, excellence, and service to our nation’s Warfighters. Read More Here: https://ow.ly/R6aq50WUejH #GoPrecise #ScaleYourFuture #MissionReady #DefenseInnovation #EngineeringExcellence

New Defense Acquisition Framework to Accelerate Technology Transition to Warfighters https://lnkd.in/g8vZqEfC MCLEAN, Va., & BEDFORD, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– #DOD–The National Security Engineering Center (NSEC), a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) operated by MITRE, unveiled the Transition Maturity Framework (TMaF) today. TMaF is a comprehensive defense [...]

The Tech7 Company, a defense and national security sector innovator, has secured a $489 million contract from the GSA for the development and deployment of the Tech7 Reporting Analysis Commercial Extension, or TRACE 2.0. Read the full details of the contract here: https://lnkd.in/ghH8RNNa __ #TECH7 #Contract

Meet the new Defense Disruptors! During the Cold War and the era of the “peace dividend” that followed, defense companies spent years developing products—sometimes with partners, sometimes not. Those lengthy development cycles seem misplaced in today’s environment, in which technology needs can change within weeks. A new approach has thus emerged in the form of joint ventures, strategic partnerships and direct investments. These arrangements have paired legacy OEMs with new entrants, hardware with software/artificial intelligence, US suppliers with European ones, public companies with private companies, sovereign nations with for-profit enterprises and the defense industry with nondefense-related sectors. Follow the link in comments for a snapshot of high-profile activities that illustrate how joint ventures have been established in short order to address emerging needs within the defense sector!

Meet the new Defense Disruptors! During the Cold War and the era of the “peace dividend” that followed, defense companies spent years developing products—sometimes with partners, sometimes not. Those lengthy development cycles seem misplaced in today’s environment, in which technology needs can change within weeks. A new approach has thus emerged in the form of joint ventures, strategic partnerships and direct investments. These arrangements have paired legacy OEMs with new entrants, hardware with software/artificial intelligence, US suppliers with European ones, public companies with private companies, sovereign nations with for-profit enterprises and the defense industry with nondefense-related sectors. Follow the link in comments for a snapshot of high-profile activities that illustrate how joint ventures have been established in short order to address emerging needs within the defense sector!

Today, we unveiled the Transition Maturity Framework (TMaF)—a groundbreaking #DefenseAcquisition framework designed to accelerate the transition of innovative technologies from research labs to deployment with U.S. warfighters. Developed in collaboration with the United States Department of Defense's Operational Energy – Innovation Directorate (OE-I), TMaF bridges the gap between promising technology development and field use by reducing risk, accelerating timelines, and ensuring next-generation solutions reach those who need them most. http://spklr.io/6046BHmqy

TMaF is the "Rosetta stone" that breaks down the complexities of technology transition and improves engagement across multiple stakeholders creating an "action-oriented" path for technology transition!

This framework, just released by MITRE’s National Security Engineering Center (NSEC), is a game-changer for our military. It reduces delays, lowers risks, and gives decision makers the insights they need to make smart investments. Most importantly, it means our warfighters are equipped with the best tools to stay ahead and accomplish their missions. I’m proud of MITRE’s role in driving this effort, and excited to see the impact TMaF will have on national security and the people who defend it. #DefenseInnovation #NationalSecurity #DefenseAcquisition #WarfighterAdvantage

ICYMI Last week saw a major shift in defense acquisition: the SecDef dismantled JCIDS in a memo titled Reforming the Joint Requirements Process to Accelerate Fielding of Warfighting Capabilities on August 20. For the last 20+ years, JCIDS was intended to align acquisition and capability development across the joint force. In practice, as many of us who have worked in DoD acquisition can attest to, it became something of a bottleneck: slow, bureaucratic, and often blamed for delaying critical technologies from reaching the warfighter. At first glance, the new framework looks promising: 🔹The establishment of a Requirements and Resourcing Alignment Board (RRAB) to prioritize and resource capabilities on a tighter cycle, focused on identifying and prioritizing key operational problems (KOPs). 🔹Creation of the Mission Engineering and Integration Activity (MEIA) to engage industry earlier, refine requirements through mission engineering, and run rapid experimentation. 🔹A clear “no new bureaucracy” mandate to keep processes lean. Ultimately, I see this as a step in the right direction: faster requirements, greater empowerment for the services, earlier collaboration with industry, and more iterative experimentation. These are all critical to keeping pace with the threat environment. Placing the onus of meeting joint requirements on lower echelons in acquisition also empowers private companies like Cortina, who serve multiple DoD agencies, to provide ground-level insight into what’s working, where challenges remain, and how lessons learned can strengthen every pillar of the joint force. But I do have concerns. Without a structure like what JCIDS provided, flawed though it was, there’s a real risk of fragmentation. We may see capabilities developed at speed, but the concern is always that efforts may be spent solving the wrong problems. Speed matters, but only if we move faster in the right direction. With less oversight, the challenge becomes maintaining discipline and integrity at every level. From DoD leadership to soldiers in the field, from government PMs to contractors and industry, everyone involved in acquisition now carries more responsibility to ensure efforts remain aligned with real joint operational needs and that they end up solving the right problems for our DoD as a whole. 👉 What do you think? Is this the reform that will finally break the logjam? Or could this lead to a misalignment of efforts across the joint force? Link to the memo: https://lnkd.in/ecAxwreW