June 2024 Weapon Systems Annual Assessment

To deliver more timely and effective solutions to the warfighter, the Department of Defense (DOD) revamped its department-wide acquisition policies in 2020. These policy changes responded to long-standing concerns that the defense acquisition process was overly bureaucratic and too slow.

As part of these changes, DOD established the Adaptive Acquisition Framework, which offers a variety of pathways for acquisition programs. This framework includes the major capability acquisition pathway to acquire and modernize unique DOD programs that provide enduring capability.