Empower Acquisition Excellence
A Public Benefit Corporation dedicated to enabling the DoW deliver superior warfighting capabilities faster from the best companies.
Cutting-Edge Solutions for Defense
Explore our suite of tools, strategies, and services to enable defense and industry professionals deftly navigate and transform the new defense enterprise.
Acquisition Tools
Enable portfolios and programs with powerful decision support tools.
Program Strategy and Execution
Guide program offices on novel rapid acquisition strategies.
Multi-Vendor Integration
Warfighting advantage today depends on how well systems from different vendors communicate, coordinate, and close the kill chain. CDN brings acquisition teams and industry partners together to architect and deliver composable, multi-vendor kill webs — going beyond interoperability compliance to actual lethal effectiveness.
A Record of Leading Transformations
Adaptive Acquisition Framework
Transformed the legacy acquisition model into six proactively tailored acquisition pathways. Each pathway had curated guidance, policies, and resources to navigate the acquisition lifecycle.
Implemented the rapid prototyping and rapid fielding pathways per the FY16 NDAA Section 804. The first step to hack the DoD bureaucracy with new processes and culture around speed.
Middle Tier of Acquisition
Software Acquisition Pathway
Pivoted to a software centric model with user centric, rapid, iterative software releases. Baked in modern software practices to deliver novel software to users in weeks not years.
In Partnership with the
Creative Defense Foundation
Focused on rebuilding the defense industrial base to harness
entrepreneurial innovation and creative disruption for our common defense.
