• Working with a cumbersome, lengthy and expensive acquisition processes where it can take anywhere
  from five to 10 years to field a new capability
• Taming the complexity of an overwhelming amount of available information for users
• The “hype cycle” for new technologies, programs or products leading to requests for the possible
  instead of the practical
• A disconnected set of stakeholders (i.e. end-users, customers, industry and academia) with no clear
  prioritization or focus on technology or funding application

The EDGE® provides an environment where technology developers and innovators are openly informed of user capability needs, and use open system interfaces to facilitate smooth integration of components.

Through the EDGE Network, these investments are better directed, participant and partners are better informed,
needs and gaps are prioritized and better focused resulting in more rapid delivery of solutions to first responders
and Warfighters.

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With the EDGE, collective challenges are resolved

• Improved communication and collaboration left of Request for Proposals and right of contract award
  helps customers execute better acquisitions
• Human Centered Design maintains collective focus on the human as the center of the design
• Quick turn, no obligation prototypes for stakeholders that help foster consensus on what is
  “good enough” for fielding
• Better solidify the need or gap by informing a wider audience, focusing existing investments and
  delivering the right solution the first time