Meeting DoD’s Innovation Challenge: Adapting and Scaling Cutting-Edge Technology to Enhance Modernization

As the Department of Defense has put greater emphasis on commercial technology for cutting edge capabilities and scalability, a broad range of companies have demonstrated growing interest in contributing to national security. However, despite DoD’s focus on innovation, historic challenges persist, creating difficulties for new vendors who are working to enter the complex DoD marketplace. This limits opportunities for technology transition, commercial upgrades, and other innovations in the defense ecosystem.

The Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) hosted Liz Young McNally, Deputy Director for Commercial Operations at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), Louis A. Koplin, Program Executive Officer for Digital and Enterprise Services (PEO Digital) at the Department of the Navy, and Justin Fanelli, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Department of the Navy for a livestream event exploring the technology challenge.  This virtual discussion covered what has worked to bring in advanced capabilities, where there are barriers to progress, and what opportunities exist to streamline and improve the adoption of innovation across the DoD.

Check out the PEO Digital Innovation Adoption Kit shown during the discussion: Innovation_Adoption_Kit_v16.pdf.

This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.