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FY2025 NDAA: Accelerating Technology
Transitions
October 1, 2024
The Defense Department seeks technological advantages to obtain battlefield overmatch, deter potential
enemies, and contribute to decisive U.S. military victory. Underpinning U.S. technological advantages are
leading-edge innovations built on a foundation of insights gained from research and development (R&D)
activities. Some analysts believe that U.S. technological superiority-and, by extension, national
security-is at risk due to a number of factors, including the increasing technological prowess of potential
adversaries.
The National Defense Science and Technology Strategy (NDSTS) outlines three strategic lines of effort to
maintain the nation's competitive edge, including creat[ing] and field[ing] capabilities at speed and
scale. This CRS product provides an overview of selected provisions in the House-passed and Senate
Armed Services Committee (SASC)-reported versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2025 (NDAA, H.R. 8070 and S. 4638) that seek to accelerate the transition of technologies
from the R&D phase into operational use.
Specifically, Congress may deliberate on the bills' provisions that could increase Department of Defense
(DOD) partnerships with nontraditional defense contractors (e.g., small businesses); leverage DOD and
private sector investments in dual-use technologies; and aid alignment of research and engineering
processes with acquisition and procurement processes. Table 1 summarizes selected provisions from H.R.
8070 and S. 4638.
Table I. Selected Technology Acceleration Provisions in the FY2025 NDAA Bills
House-Passed H.R. 8070
SASC-Reported S. 4368
Provisions Related to Increasing Small Business Defense Contractors
Sec. 85 1 would require each Secretary of a military service
to designate five Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) projects as
Entrepreneurial Innovation Projects and include such
projects in the future budgets and plans of DOD.
No similar provision.
Congressional Research Service
https://crsreports.congress.gov
IN12435
CRS INSIGHT
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