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Although the Pentagon\u2019s fiscal 2026 budget flatlines funding for the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve, officials said Wednesday the move was less about killing the program \u2014 created to demonstrate technology that can meet urgent military needs \u2014 and more about normalizing the process it created. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been institutionalized now,\u201d Alexander Lovett, deputy assistant secretary of defense for prototyping and experimentation, told reporters Wednesday. \u201cThat is the way we do business. So, we don\u2019t specifically call it RDER anymore. We just call it prototyping and experimentation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RDER was created in 2021 to prioritize overlooked combatant command needs<\/a>. The program identified capabilities gaps that spanned multiple COCOMs and military services, found mature technologies officials thought could fill those gaps and then sought to prove it through experimentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The effort faced an uphill battle in Congress, with lawmakers consistently cutting its budget and claiming its work was redundant to other Defense Department innovation initiatives and wasn\u2019t transitioning technology fast enough. In FY25, after Senate appropriators moved to make steep cuts to the program, former Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu campaigned heavily to save it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking Wednesday at a technology display staged in the Pentagon\u2019s courtyard that featured several successful RDER projects, Lovett said funding from the effort is now being pushed to the services to scale technology that meets the department\u2019s priorities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t need a separate program,\u201d Lovett said. \u201cWe\u2019ve completely adopted that, and we\u2019ll continue to do operational experimentation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technology experimentation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One element of RDER that remains intact is a semi-annual demonstration and testing campaign called Technology Readiness Experimentation, or TREX. Initially intended to help identify and vet potential RDER projects, the Pentagon will now use TREX to get after high-priority capability needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the next few years, Lovett said, that will largely center around autonomous systems, like UAS and counter-drone technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the technology on display Wednesday was part of the RDER program and has benefitted from the chance to demonstrate at TREX events. The showcase largely focused on autonomy, featuring 18 systems, many of them drones, that DOD has experimented with over the past year or two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That includes a long-endurance UAS called Vanilla built by Platform Aerospace, which graduated from RDER last year. The system can perform a range of missions, including ISR, signals intelligence, communications and kinetic and non-kinetic effects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system is currently under operational assessment by U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S Central Command and U.S. Africa Command according to Jon Rasche, a program manager at the firm. Those reviews, which should be complete in 2026, evaluate the aircraft\u2019s capability and meet command requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, Platform has funding from DOD\u2019s Accelerated Procurement For Innovative Technologies program<\/a>, or APFIT, to build out its production capacity and make sure it\u2019s ready to start delivering the system once it\u2019s part of a program of record. Rasch told Defense News the company expects to ramp up from its current rate of one system per month to four per month next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company\u2019s involvement in RDER not only provided a pathway for Vanilla to become a formal DOD program, Rasche said, but the exposure and feedback from program managers and operational units helped shape the system\u2019s development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cObviously everyone wants to move into a program of record. But that transition path is confusing at times,\u201d Rasch said. \u201cThe RDER program was helpful as we got different program managers from the RDER team to help us understand what the next steps were moving through that process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drone dominance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The event followed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s June 10<\/a> memo that rolled out a slew of reforms to the way the Pentagon tests, buys and fields drones and pushes decision-making authority to units in the field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The memo requires the military services to each create active-duty drone formations to scale the use of small uncrewed air systems, or UAS, across DOD. It gives procurement authority to combat units to buy, test and train with small UAS. And it calls on the services to stand up \u201cunsubordinated program offices\u201d focused entirely on rapidly acquiring drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy the end of 2026, every squad will have low-cost, expendable drones, prioritizing Indo-Pacific combat units and consistent with other Secretary of Defense strategic guidance documents,\u201d the memo states. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegseth made an appearance at the showcase Wednesday, visiting several booths. He spoke briefly with reporters and noted that the systems on display represented a small fraction of the innovation the department hopes to spark by reducing some of the policy barriers that make it harder for companies to work with DOD and for military operators to get the capabilities they need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we continue to do is drastically reduce red tape,\u201d Hegseth said. \u201cPrevious barriers have been put in place to block innovation, block speed, to block scale, to block working with industry, to block competition. . . . When it comes to drones \u2014 large, small, all classes \u2014 we need to be world class. And we will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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