Acquisition and Production
Move critical capabilities from requirement to fielding and production
The national security enterprise invests billions in cutting-edge research and development (R&D) and depends on a fragmented industrial base to produce at scale. Requirements, R&D investment, and industrial capacity sit in separate silos, and the gaps between them do not surface until a program is already behind schedule, resulting in delayed fielding, missed windows of advantage, and a front line waiting years for the capabilities it needs today.
Air’s Acquisition and Production Execution Center closes those gaps. By unifying the technology development pipeline into a single, AI-native system, Air Enterprise Readiness platform enables leaders to identify, evaluate, and accelerate next-generation capabilities at the speed and cost the mission demands, advancing the metric that matters: time to fielding.
Portfolio Tracking
Balance trade-offs across the entire portfolio, with milestones, budget, and delivery in one view that updates as programs move
R&D Portfolio Prioritization
Identify and fast-track the highest-impact innovations, weighing competing investments and reallocating resources as priorities shift
Industrial Risk Mitigation
Resolve sole-source dependencies and foreign influence before they disrupt schedule, with vendor health tracked continuously across the sub-tier network
Uncover hidden risks before they impact the mission
Air helps leaders identify capability gaps, manage R&D and acquisition investments, surface supplier, intellectual property, and industrial base risks, and move promising technologies toward Programs of Record and production.
Sharper requirements
Translate frontline conditions and adversarial threats into precise capability gaps and technical requirements before development starts.
Proactive risk mitigation
Flag supply chain bottlenecks, intellectual property risks, and foreign influence before vendor integration.
Faster prototype-to-program transition
Accelerate the move from prototype into Programs of Record by automating vendor due diligence and approval routing.
Proven Impact:
The Defense Contract Management Agency
Problem
The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) provides authoritative visibility into industrial base risks that threaten production of mission-critical assets. Risk assessment is manual, inconsistent, and difficult to scale across programs, suppliers, and mission areas.
Solution
Air enables DCMA to coordinate resilient industrial capacity and scaled production, converting fragmented, analyst-dependent assessments into a repeatable enterprise capability for monitoring supplier risk, industrial base resilience, and production exposure at scale.
Impact
Air reduces vendor due diligence from 120 hours to under 24 hours, scaling analyst productivity across DCMA's value-generating workflows. Faster risk identification translates directly to faster intervention, keeping production of mission-critical assets on schedule for the front line and unlocking billions in additional annual impact.
5x
Faster vendor due diligence
Reducing vendor due diligence from 120 hours to under 24 hours.
$700M to $2.3B
Annual Impact at Scale
Expanding the impact of industrial base risk monitoring across agency workflows.
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Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul
Synchronize maintenance demand, parts availability, repair workflows, and fleet health to improve operational availability.
Supply Chain and Sustainment
See capacity, constraints, and supplier risk before they affect delivery.
Logistics
Anticipate demand, optimize resupply execution, and maintain continuity from strategic hubs to the tactical edge.
See Air in Action
The Readiness Gap will not close through more reports, delayed reviews, or heroic workarounds.
See how Air Enterprise Readiness platform helps leaders understand readiness constraints, coordinate execution, and act with confidence before risk reaches the mission.