Agencies are often confronted with multiple challenges when transitioning solutions, as transition considerations are frequently secondary in the R&D process. Overcoming these challenges involves preparing ahead of time, leveraging the best and brightest, and constantly re-evaluating to stay ahead of potential roadblocks.

Agencies miss the mark on successful solutions when they do not integrate stakeholders into every step of the research and development (R&D) process. These steps include stakeholder needs collection, gap analysis and solution scouting, solution development, testing and validation, and transition to stakeholders.

Government science and technology organizations face intense pressure to deliver game changing research and development (R&D) results to their customers to maximize emerging technology capabilities while demonstrating return on investment (ROI). To meet this demand, government agencies are quick to elicit needs from stakeholder portfolios and translate those into tangible solutions. While this can lead to early wins, it also has unintended consequences to include partial or overlapping solutions.