Defense officials want to use competitive prototyping in the management of two fiscal year 2009 joint concept technology demonstration projects, one dealing with airborne high-power microwave emitters and the other with combat casualty care, according to recently published Pentagon documents. The plan is disclosed in the latest version of the defense acquisition executive's "strategic goals implementation plan," published on a Defense Department Web site earlier this month. The document says the Pentagon plans to build competitive prototyping requirements into all...