“The Pentagon’s new innovation chief wants to redefine how the Defense Department adopts commercial technology, starting with extending the Defense Innovation Unit’s reach into the combatant commands.
“There was a time where, a bit, disruptors of the team was what was needed, because we just had to finally break through and change the way we were thinking about certain things,” said Doug Beck, the new director of the Defense Innovation Unit. “Now what we’ve got to do is we’ve got to be disruptors on the team, and that’s about disruption at scale, which is more like the kind of world that I just came from. And that’s why when I’m out here, I’m not wearing jeans. I’m wearing this thing,” the former Apple exec said, pointing to his tie…”
Source: The Pentagon’s innovation arm has a new chief and a new strategy. By Lauren Williams, September 5, 2023. GovExec.
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