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Pentagon

Defense Innovation Board: Optimize Pentagon For Speed, Not Cost

Tuesday, October 24th, 2017

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Defense Innovation Board: Optimize Pentagon For Speed, Not Cost

As a 20th century organization designed to acquire weapons and fight wars at the lowest possible cost to taxpayers, the Defense Department is rigidly hierarchical, bureaucratic and stifling to the sorts of innovation it sees as critical to fighting future wars.The Defense Innovation Board (DIB), which met Oct. 24 outside Washington, D.C., is tasked with finding ways to enable and nurture innovation and disruptive thought inside the military, which has an infamous aversion to nonconformity.It was the fifth meeting of…

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