Welcome to the Advanced Systems & Concepts website
The mission of the Office of Advanced Systems and Concepts (AS&C) is to find, demonstrate, transition, and transfer the best operational concepts and technology solutions for transformational, joint, and coalition warfare.
AS&C accelerates cutting-edge technologies to the warfighter by:
- Speeding the discovery, development, and delivery of technology and concepts for sustained military capabilities with emphasis on capabilities that are innovative, transformational and joint;
- Partnering with Services, Agencies, and Coalition elements to provide the best capabilities to Joint and Coalition warfighters;
- Seeking the very best technical and operational concept solutions from Defense, industry and academic sources;
- Leveraging "try before you buy" demonstrations, exploiting "test to procure" initiatives, and forging partnerships to create new technology and operational concept solutions for warfighters; and
- Combining improved business processes to operationalize innovation faster than ever.
AS&C Offices include:
 Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations (JCTD) Office, which exploits mature and maturing technologies and introduces new operational concepts to solve important military problems and facilitates transition of these new capabilities from the developers to the users.
Comparative Testing Office (CTO), which administers the Defense Acquisition Challenge (DAC) and Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT) programs.
DAC solicits ‘challenges’ to existing technologies to provide companies, individuals, and Defense acquisition programs an on-ramp for increased introduction of innovative and cost-saving technologies.
FCT facilitates the test and evaluation of foreign non-developmental equipment and technology to satisfy U.S. military requirements.
Office of Technology Transition (OTT), which formulates policies and establishes and manages programs that affordably transition advanced technologies from R&D to weapons systems. OTT also assists in the commercialization of defense technologies. Programs include:
• Technology Transfer (including TechLink and TechMatch programs)
• Independent Research and Development (IR&D)
• Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
• North American Technology and Industrial Base Organization (NATIBO)
• Manufacturing Technology (ManTech)
• Defense Production Act Title III
• Technology Transition Initiative
Program Resources and Integration (PR&I) Office, which manages funding of all AS&C projects.
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