Mission:
FTD provides requirement determination, rapidly develops requirements for the Army’s training environment, and conducts tech recon of industry and academia to narrow capability gaps informed by user experimentation, technical demonstrations to rapidly transition capability on behalf CAC into the Army acquisition system.
Vision:
The FTD narrows an existing set of capability gaps informed by analysis, experimentation, and technical demonstrations to rapidly transition leader-approved capability requirements to the Defense Acquisition System. The FTD informs technology transitions, research and development, and user assessments, and then rapidly transitions operational requirements into the Defense Acquisition System. The FTD integrates and synchronizes DevOps activities across the Army to improve speed, capability, delivery, and cost-effective materiel solutions to meet the Chief of Staff of the Army’s (CSA’s) first order principles, characteristics, and warfighting requirements. The FTD will enable the Army to achieve overmatch through monitoring threat capabilities, researching advanced technologies, and developing and implementing preprogrammed product improvements to maintain resiliency against current and emerging threats.