
While the Defense Innovation Unit Community of Entities (DICE) is a bureaucratic-sounding term of word salad--a simple DICE synonym would be "group"--a key DICE effort is aimed at the opposite of bureaucracy--that is, examining advanced technology requirements across military services and agencies to see where DoD may eliminate overlap and be able to consolidate funding. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recognized that better DoD coordination across DoD and other government agencies is vital, and DICE "is the realization that we have…