The New DoD 5000 process has three major objectives. 1) Deliver advanced technology to the Warfighter faster 2) Reduce total ownership cost and improve affordability 3) Deploy supportable and interoperable systems First, we must explore ways to deliver advanced technology to the Warfighter faster. One method is to avoid incorporating immature technologies, which leads to long, expensive, and high-risk development cycles. Instead, the new model calls for integration of mature, demonstrated technology to significantly reduce development time and meet user needs. Using evolutionary acquisition and time-phased user requirements, we can deliver useful, operational capability to the warfighter quickly, while follow-on increments will grow the system to its full capability. Also, test and evaluation must be integrated throughout the acquisition process, with emphasis on modeling & simulation, early operational assessments, and demonstrations in relevant, intended, and operational environments. Secondly, we must reduce total ownership cost and improve affordability. The acquisition strategy and design decisions made early in the program affect not only development and production costs, but also drive operations and sustainment costs. Total ownership cost is kept in check through initiatives such as market research, commercial and non-developmental items, Cost as an Independent Variable(CAIV), increased contractor competition, open systems architectures, Simulation Based Acquisition, and reprocurement reform. To confirm that the system will remain within cost constraints, life-cycle affordability should be reviewed at each Milestone decision. Though we will be rapidly fielding systems within cost constraints, the deployed systems must be both supportable and interoperable (Deploy supportable and interoperable systems). To underscore its importance throughout the acquisition process, Operations and Support is a separate phase. On a typical program, 65 percent of total ownership costs are incurred during this phase. Therefore, early design decisions have a huge impact on weapon system supportability and affordability and must focus on sustainment issues such as human factors, manpower, training, and supply. Deployed systems must be interoperable with other Air Force, Joint, and Allied systems.