Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations : About JCTD

The RFD/JCTD Mission Statement:

The mission of RFD/JCTD is to find, demonstrate, transition, and transfer the best operational concepts and technology solutions for transformational, joint, and coalition warfare.

RFD accelerates cutting-edge technologies to the Warfighter by:

• Speeding the discovery, development, and delivery of technology and concepts for sustained military capabilities with emphasis on capabilities that are innovative, transformational and joint;

• Partnering with Services, Agencies, and Coalition elements to provide the best capabilities to Joint and Coalition warfighters;

• Seeking the very best technical and operational concept solutions from Defense, industry and academic sources;

• Leveraging "try before you buy" demonstrations, exploiting "test to procure" initiatives, and forging partnerships to create new technology and operational concept solutions for warfighters; and

• Combining improved business processes to operationalize innovation faster than ever.

JCTD Office Description:

The Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations (JCTD) Office exploits mature and maturing technologies and introduces new operational concepts to solve important military problems and facilitates transition of these new capabilities from the developers to the users.

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Points of Contact

For further information, contact the Rapid Fielding Directorate at 703-697-6446.

Quotes from our Customers

JCTD Customer Quotes (pdf)

Glossary

Acronym Lookup (pdf)