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Former USAF Acquisition Head Chairing Defense Innovation Board’s Strategic Investment Capital Task Force

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Former USAF Acquisition Head Chairing Defense Innovation Board’s Strategic Investment Capital Task Force
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Former U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Will Roper is chairing the Defense Innovation Board's (DIB) strategic investment capital task force to examine ways to spur public-private partnerships to help field emerging technologies that the Pentagon needs. "To maintain technological advantage, the DoD must complement the innovative power of the private sector with an approach that makes strategic public investments in critical, emerging technologies, such as microelectronics, advanced computing, biotechnologies, clean energy technologies, and advanced telecommunications," Heidi Shyu, under secretary of…

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