Accelerating Innovation Adoption for Defense Priorities : MITRE , July 22 , 2025
Accelerating Innovation Adoption for Defense Priorities : MITRE , July 22 , 2025
From the report: "Recent Executive Orders and Directives require the Department of Defense (DoD) to prioritize innovation in the commercial marketplace and streamline processes to rapidly deliver solutions to our warfighters. Success for achieving DoD priorities, such as Golden Dome for America, Border Security, and Autonomous Systems, will depend on innovative industry solutions—combining new approaches with today’s capabilities and bringing in non-traditional industry partners, quickly and flexibly.
Innovation adoption processes are widely recognized as fragmented, cumbersome, and slow to produce the needed capability to enable mission overmatch against our rapidly evolving adversaries. Core to the approach of breaking down barriers is the alignment of commercial industry technical capability with identified mission gaps to efficiently and effectively direct resources addressing the right parts of the right problems with the right solutions. Golden Dome for America, a key example of a DoD priority, is a multi-dimensional, complex undertaking that needs to address a series of critical actions for mission success: finding, fixing, tracking, targeting, engaging, and assessing threats across multiple domains and against varied threat types.
MITRE hosted a “Breaking Barriers in Defense Acquisition” summit that discussed key challenges and actionable solutions to accelerate capability delivery to warfighters, strengthen the defense industrial base, and deepen collaboration with allies and partners."
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