by Tyler Sweatt, Jason Knudson, and Enrique Oti
The United States faces a growing and very real threat from peer- and near-peer adversaries such as China and Russia — a geopolitical competition for technological advantage that will define the coming decades. Victory will be achieved not by identifying and investing in new technologies or developing larger and more complex weapons systems as has been often discussed, but by unifying and scaling efforts across the kill chain of acquisition.
We must empower acquisition offices to rapidly identify and assess commercial technologies in development, remove barriers to integration of new technologies into…
