Mission
Innovation and Evidence-Based Decision Making to Improve Acquisition Outcomes
A learning organization that reaches across the Department of Defense (DoD) to enable innovation and evidence-based decision making manifested through policy, organizational change management, and workforce development.
Collaborators
AIRC provides a collaboration platform for engaging stakeholders within the extended DoD Acquisition Enterprise, thought leaders from across the nation, and researchers across academia.
Engagement
The AIRC will continuously engage the talents of leaders, researchers and subject matter experts from across its network of universities to create an ecosystem that promotes innovation in academic analysis and policy alternatives for improved defense acquisition outcomes powered by evidence-based, data driven decision making.
Incubate
Ideate
Respond
Connect
Incubate
Selected Sponsors and Offices within the DoD define priority themes (e.g., Acquisition and T&E), and the research community responds with innovative ideas to explore within these priority themes.
Ideate
AIRC provides a platform for the community of researchers to propose innovative ideas for experiments and pilots for the relevant sponsors and offices to consider.
Respond
AIRC provides a resource to the Sponsors and Offices within the DoD to explore innovative approaches to specific priorities.
Connect
AIRC connects a network of the top academic and research faculty across its university collaborators to address emergent questions. The AIRC's flexible contracting approach allows for a Sponsor to quickly bring together an expert or group of experts from across the collaborator universities for focused panels, workshops, studies, or other engagements.
AIRC in the News
Nov. 30, 2020
U.S. Department of Defense Taps Stevens Institute of Technology to Improve Defense Acquisition System
New center led by Stevens will support the transformation of the defense acquisition system to help the DoD respond to the rapid technological advancements critical to today's warfighter.
(Hoboken, N.J. – Nov. 30, 2020) – In an increasingly complex global security environment, Stevens Institute of Technology has been tapped to leverage its top systems engineering researchers as well as its nationwide network of experts from universities across...