The Pentagon should establish a clear transition goal for its Rapid Innovation Program to help enhance the department's ability to move technologies to acquisition programs, the Government Accountability Office recommends in a report released Thursday. It is challenging to determine whether the Rapid Innovation Program, or RIP, has been successful because the Defense Department does not have any "specific transition performance targets" for the program, and fails to track project outcomes "beyond whether partner out-year funding has been committed," according...
