- The Special Operations Forces have the process of acquisition of fast and flexible weapons.
- It is important to preserve the pre -curious operators on the necessary capabilities.
- Officials said there are lessons for the joint power and the largest Pentagon.
The United States Special Operations Forces know how to get new technologies and weapons to the fighter quickly, and there are possible lessons in their closeness to the broader army.
At a recent symposium in Washington, DC, speakers have argued that the Pentagon needed to move faster.
“The biggest thing we have to do is to change the Pentagon and Congress culture mainly,” said MP Adam Smith, a Washington democratic, and a member of the Armed Services Committee in the US House of Representatives.
“We need to accelerate the pace of innovation,” he said.
Special operations forces have flexible acquisitions not only unite operators and industry partners, but also encourage adjustments in actual time.
In the last symposium, the Special Operations Command, other military officials, and industry partners spoke about what succeeds and what does not succeed in obtaining new weapons and capabilities.
SOF’s Agile acquisition means that it is able to work with industry partners to obtain its hands and adjust both devices and programs faster than others. The officials said its approach was a model for how to solve the broader issues within the Pentagon.
Relationships with a variety of industry partners will benefit from comprehensive acquisitions.
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Melissa Johnson, a Member of the first executive service The SOCOM Officer Executive Officer said that the force in this process is that making decisions regarding the systems that must be obtained and when it is coordinated through close coordination with the operator, which creates a stronger relationship between what the individual operator sees is necessary and what industrial partners can provide.
“I think the recipe is really simple,” Johnson said at the symposium.
What slows down the DOD acquisition? There is a group of different factors.
As officials recently said, many problems are caused by the way the financing is allocated and how the contract works through services and Congress. Other complications are the piece of requirements and whether some of them are very complex and arbitrary for certain systems. Smith pointed to long requirements and sometimes and sometimes necessary for some things, such as paint on the coastal fighting ship.
It is not as if the US Special Operations Forces are not without problems in their acquisition. For example, private operations leaders told the House of Representatives Armed Services in the House of Representatives last week that American opponents are updated faster than they could, and they told Congress leaders that technology is sometimes outdated as it is inserted.
There is an urgency to accelerate the pace of weapons acquisitions amid competing with great power.
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“It is an ongoing link to try to catch up with the enemy,” said General Michael Conley, commander of the Air Force Special Operations.
However, the Special Operations Forces tend to move faster than the rest of the army, which feel pressure to update for high -level contradictions amid the emergence of the latest combat technologies such as unsuccessful systems, artificial intelligence and the greatest focus on great strong competition with China and Russia.
SOCOM officials from the Ukraine war said, where there are lessons that must be learned, as drone manufacturers create solutions to devices and programs for problems in the battlefields even when counter -procedures arise.
Chris Proz, chief strategy official in Anduril Industries, said that one of the benefits of working with SOCOC is that her work with industry partners is operating differently from the requirements of building the next submarine or destroyer.
Broz referred to Andoril’s work with SOCOM on anti -limb systems, noting that the reactions of operators to the threats out of new technologies were the key to adaptation in actual time.
Others have tried this approach with industry, such as leading US army futures, which relied on overwhelming tests and comments touched by a soldier. However, there is room for improvement in innovation and acquisition within the Ministry of Defense.
The adoption of the SOCOC method in doing things is more flexible in the budget. Smith said that there was caution against the allocations, and this was a big battle with questions about censorship. The officials said that every solution is not provided will be applied to the entire army, as the Special Operations Forces buy smaller quantities of advanced technology with a smaller and flexible budget. But the general focus on solving problems closer to industry may be useful.
