The Pentagon has struggled for decades to get new technologies out of the lab and into the hands of operators. But the Department of Defense is now using experimentation to more rapidly assess new capabilities and integrate them into the force, efforts that accelerated following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the department’s launch of the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) initiative. Congress wants to supercharge this Pentagon experimentation. The proposed SPEED Act aims to use the DoD’s experimentation- and integration-focused organizations and processes—rather than legacy capability-development programs—as the primary path for identifying and fielding solutions to commanders’ operational needs.
Please join Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Bryan Clark, US defense officials, and industry leaders for an event co-organized with the National Defense Industrial Association's Emerging Technologies Institute, highlighting the DoD’s recent accomplishments in translating concept to capability through experimentation in support of the nation’s most urgent military challenges.
Agenda
1:00 p.m. | Panel 1: Current Experimentation
Moderator
2:30 p.m. | Panel 2: Future Role of Experimentation
Moderator
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