DAU Webcasts Adaptive Acquisition Framework Urgent Capability Pathway briefing. A tailored strategy to field capabilities to fulfill urgent operational needs or other quick reaction capabilities in less than 2 years.Requirement criteria: prevent loss of life or critical mission failure. The estimated cost must not exceed $525 million in research, development, and test and evaluation, or $3.065 billion for procurements in Fiscal Year 2020 constant dollars. •Schedule is more important than cost or performance. As a result, the Program Management / Acquisition community assumes greater risk.