diff --git a/app/overrides/lib/active-fedora/fedora_override.rb b/app/overrides/lib/active-fedora/fedora_override.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cc12124c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/overrides/lib/active-fedora/fedora_override.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+# https://github.com/samvera/active_fedora/blob/v14.0.1/lib/active_fedora/fedora.rb
+ActiveFedora::Fedora.class_eval do
+  def authorized_connection
+    options = {}
+    options[:ssl] = ssl_options if ssl_options
+    options[:request] = request_options if request_options
+    Faraday.new(host, options) do |conn|
+      conn.response :encoding # use Faraday::Encoding middleware
+      conn.adapter Faraday.default_adapter # net/http
+      # [hyc-override] Setting timeout to 5 minutes to allow for deposit of large files (default: 60)
+      conn.options.timeout = 60 * 5
+      if Gem::Version.new(Faraday::VERSION) < Gem::Version.new('2')
+        conn.request :basic_auth, user, password
+      else
+        conn.request :authorization, :basic, user, password
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/config/fedora.yml b/config/fedora.yml
index ced226613..b7973b861 100755
--- a/config/fedora.yml
+++ b/config/fedora.yml
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+default: &default
+  request:
+    timeout: 300
 development:
   user: fedoraAdmin
   password: fedoraAdmin