This Echo episode of "Acquisition Practices Worth Emulating" Mr. Howard Berkof explains how the Navy's
eXtra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (XLUUV) program cuts years from program delivery schedule by focusing on
stakeholder trust, bringing industry in sooner during requirements development
and running early prototypes to get smarter sooner. These efforts resulted in a tailored program
that fit its technical, cost and schedule requirements and will allow the team
to deliver new lethality capabilities years sooner. They stress it is not about rapid, it is
about doing acquisition smarter and more efficiently. Their best
practices are being shared across the Navy.