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Science and Technology: Rapid Prototyping of Countermeasures

This program accelerates the deployment of advanced prototypical technologies to address urgent needs for new homeland security protections. The program will assess prototypes and bring them to front-line personnel on an accelerated timeline once fully reviewed or reengineered.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • This program needs to have outside evaluations conducted to support program improvements and evaluate effectiveness.
  • More progress needs to be demonstrated toward achievement of long term goals. This is a new program and has a limited track record.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Working to develop sensible, ambitious targets on the number of technologies brought to market.
  • Conducting independent evaluations to benchmark progress and ensure competitive sourcing practices are followed.
  • Proposing in the budget and working with Congress to consolidate the Emerging Threats and Rapid Prototyping portfolios into one office to increase efficiencies and better leverage assets of each.

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