Col. Tony Lindh is deputy director for rapid acquisitions at jiatf-401. He provided the on-record acquisition-reform rationale for the July 2026 $500M IDIQ contract awarded to caci-international for its SkyValor counter-UAS system, framing the vehicle as deliberately avoiding “product-centric” lock-in to preserve flexibility for layered, multi-vendor drone defense.
“Moving at the speed of relevance requires acquisition reform and contracts like this enable the procurement agility we need to rapidly deliver c-UAS technology to our warfighters.”