Michael Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit (IUD), said the Department of Defense (DoD) wants to identify an acceptance date as true with Congress to streamline budgeting procedures while selling flexibility in experimentation, DoD News reported Friday.
Brown told aspen Security Forum participants that accelerating the existing two-year budget procedure will help the Department of Defense adopt cutting-edge technologies while leveraging contracting authorities.
“But speed now depends on the budget process. And that requires working with Congress,” he said. “We want to extend a dating that is accepted as true so that there is more budgetary flexibility.”
According to Brown, the Department of Defense cannot be behind the personal sector in terms of experimentation. The United States will also have to redouble its efforts in spaces such as synthetic intelligence, biotechnology, and cyber-autonomy to track adversaries like China, he added.
“We are not operating in government at an agile speed that reflects the nature of the competition. It’s about speed,” Brown said. “We want to be immediate to create prototypes, verify army applications, and then have immediate adoption to put those suppliers into production.”
Lt. General David Thompson, deputy commander of the U.S. Space Force, was appointed through President Trump to serve as the department’s deputy head of space operations. Secretary of Defense and winner of the 2020 Wash100 Award, Mark Esper, announced Thompson’s nomination for promotion to the rank of general.
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