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Vice Joint Chief Gen. Selva: Military Must Become ‘Educated Consumer’ Of Commercial Tech Without Scaring Away Startups

Vice Joint Chief Gen. Selva: Military Must Become ‘Educated Consumer’ Of Commercial Tech Without Scaring Away Startups
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, USAF Gen. Paul Selva (Photo: U.S. Air Force)

In order to remain technically relevant in an age when most innovation happens outside the government, the military must become an “educated consumer” of technologies that emerge in the commercial sector without any initial combat application, according to Vice Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff.A number of efforts have been launched to help the Pentagon, which is very comfortable interacting with large, relatively slow-moving defense contracting giants, make overtures to the tech sector without scaring off its smaller and…

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