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High-level champions are critical to the success of rapid acquisitions.

Organizational and user flexibility enable rapid acquisition of new capabilities.

• Wartime environments motivate bureaucratic flexibility.
• For needed equipment, with good program office communication, users will tolerate operational risk and less than 100 percent of desired performance.
• Ongoing user feedback enables interactive capability enhancement.
• Rapid acquisitions require an immediate, flexibly-tasked source of funding.

A large variety of designated rapid acquisition processes have supplied wartime capabilities for DoD and the Army.

• These designated processes have not met every rapid acquisition need of the Army.
• The rapid acquisitions selected as cases studies for this research effort did not rely heavily on these designated processes.

Relying on existing technology and documentation speeds acquisitions.

• Leveraging requirements, contracts, and documentation from existing programs can help speed new technologies into the force.
• Conducting rapid acquisition requires the underlying technology to be mature.

C2 rapid acquisitions have ensured field support and sustainment via contractor warranties and eventual transition to an Army program of record.

• C2 rapid acquisitions have relied on multiyear warranties.
• Transition planning and staffing consistency during the transition is essential.