Tech Transition Program

The Tech Transition Program under the Air Force's Research, Development, Test & Evaluation budget activity, aims to bridge the gap between initial technology development and successful acquisition and operational capability implementation. It focuses on maturing new warfighting concepts, rapidly developing fieldable prototypes, and performing experimentation to assess the military utility of transition-ready weapon systems. The program utilizes multiple approaches and integrated activities to field technology for the warfighter, directly tied to the Secretary of the Air Force's Operational Imperatives. It also institutionalizes Experimentation and Prototyping to achieve smarter, faster, and more efficient acquisitions that move technologies rapidly into critical warfighting capabilities.

Additionally, the AFWERX Prime project within the Tech Transition Program is a new acquisition approach that uses government-specific resources to reduce risk in emerging technology markets while partnering with investors, industry, interagency, and international partners for accelerated, affordable, and agile commercial and military capability. This effort explores and transitions emerging dual-use technologies under this new acquisition approach to include evaluation of transformative vertical flight and agile logistics supporting distributed operations. The project aims to accelerate learning to enable early adoption, procurement, and fielding of advanced commercial and military capabilities bolstering national security and domestic technological dominance.