For our Air Force colleagues, in case you hadn’t already seen it, wanted to bring to your attention a SAF/AQ memorandum to the acquisition workforce dated April 10, 2018 entitled “Seven Steps for Incorporating Rapid Prototyping into Acquisition.”

In it, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) advises the Air Force acquisition workforce that “our new authorities provide so many tools to be creative; using them should routinely be our default "fast path". Given this, I wanted to send out guidelines on how to break a traditional acquisition strategy into a multi-step rapid prototyping and rapid fielding strategy. Using these should give you new options to aim higher and run faster.”