Peter Newell
Twenty years ago, the Department of Defense invented a Warfighter Acquisition System—a system designed to deliver solutions to battlefield problems at the speed they needed. It was called the US Army Rapid Equipping Force (REF). The organization’s primary role was to quickly provide emerging technologies and solutions to soldiers, often within 90 days, outside the normal, lengthy acquisition process.
Despite its success in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army’s senior leadership abandoned the REF in 2020 for a return to the status quo, claiming: “As our focus changes to great power competition and large-scale combat operations, Army analysis indicated that the personnel and resources [of the REF] could best be utilized in building the operational fighting force.”
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