Urgent Capability Acquisition (UCA)

Key Briefings

How To Use This Site

Each page in this pathway presents a wealth of curated knowledge from acquisition policies, guides, templates, training, reports, websites, case studies, and other resources. It also provides a framework for functional experts and practitioners across DoD to contribute to the collective knowledge base. This site aggregates official DoD policies, guides, references, and more.

DoD and Service policy is indicated by a BLUE vertical line.

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AAF: Urgent Capability Pathway 3.10.20

This is DAU’s webcast of their Rapid Deployment Training (RDT) for the Adaptive Acquisition Framework’s Urgent Capability Acquisition pathway. The video runs approximately 1.5 hours and details the new pathway, changes since the previous policy publication, and Q&A with DAU professors and the Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell (JRAC)’s Executive Director. Backup slides include more updates to policy but entire briefing hits the highlights.

AAF Overview (DAU) begins at 3.48.

Urgent Capability Requirements Process (DAU) begins at 8:10.

Urgent Capability Acquisition Remarks (JRAC) begins at 15.04.

Urgent Capability Acquisition Tenets, Noteworthy Changes, and Website Demo begins at 21.55.

Q&A begins at 57:30.