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With New Tech Initiatives, Carter Hopes to Bridge Culture Gap Between Silicon Valley and Pentagon

Wednesday, March 9th, 2016

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SAN FRANCISCO and SEATTLE—Galvanize, a meeting place for emerging tech startups in San Francisco, isn’t the type of place one would expect to find the head of the Pentagon and his posse of business-suited officials. The hipster chic campus is populated with young, multicultural entrepreneurs, who sip coffee brewed by an in-house barista while working on their laptops at butcher’s block tables.Yet on March 1, that’s where Defense Secretary Ashton Carter met with five business leaders eager to pitch their…

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