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Alphabet Exec Tapped to Lead Pentagon’s New Defense Innovation Advisory Board

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016

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Alphabet Exec Tapped to Lead Pentagon’s New Defense Innovation Advisory Board

SAN FRANCISCO—The Pentagon has enlisted the help of Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet [GOOG], to lead a new Defense Innovation Advisory Board that will be charged with quickly figuring out innovative and agile ways to address problems through new technologies and management processes, the department announced Wednesday.Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Schmidt have not yet laid out an agenda, but the board could offer the department advice on topics such as rapid prototyping, iterative product…

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