Why Traditional Defense Procurement Takes Decades — And How to Bypass It
The Federal Acquisition Regulation is the graveyard of relevance. OTAs and commercial BMS like KhanBMS are the way out.
The average major defense program takes 18 years from requirement to fielding. China's iteration cycle on autonomous systems is now measured in months. The math does not work.
The Federal Acquisition Regulation was written for an era of bespoke hardware and cost-plus contracts. It is structurally incapable of fielding software at the cadence the modern fight demands. The bypass already exists: Other Transaction Authority (OTA) lets the government contract with commercial vendors at commercial speed.
KhanBMS is built for this path. It is a commercial product, ready to scale, that can be fielded under an OTA in months — not the decades a traditional program of record would require. The strategy is the Mongol strategy: move at the speed of cavalry, not the speed of bureaucracy.