How to accelerate innovation adoption at the Pentagon

Summary

Clementine G. Starling and Stephen Rodriguez writing in Defense News, make the following points:

• The recommendations come from the Atlantic Council's Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption Interim Report.
• Some steps have already been taken by creating the Defense Innovation Unit and the Office of Strategic Capital.
• The U.S. does not have an innovation problem but an innovation adoption problem.
• The Pentagon is restricted by lengthy budget cycles and bureaucratic hurdles.
• A lack of consistency around requirements crushes startups seeking to work with the military.

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Source Information: 

• Article Source: Defense News, Covering the politics, business and technology of defense | Defense News
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