Defense Innovation Articles
Jan – Jun 2021
Faster Weapon Buys: Try Evolutionary Innovation
Elaine McCusker and Dan Patt
Jul 2021
Freedom of Navigation Operations: A Mission for Unmanned Systems
Trevor Prouty
Jul 2021
DevStar for B-21 Design, Build, Sustainment
Barry Rosenberg
Jun 2021
Nothing left in the tank: The state of the Pentagon’s supply chain
Andrew Gonzalez and Stephen Rodriguez
Jun 2021
Fix the Pacific Deterrence Fund—and the Deeper Problem It Reveals
Bryan Clark and Dan Patt
Jun 2021
Why DoD Needs an Arsenal of Innovation
Alex Gallo
Jun 2021
Winning the Future with AI
Mark Esper
Jun 2021
Bring Back the Air Force Battle Lab
Mike Benitez
May 2021
Shake Off the Pentagon's Industrial-Age Bureaucracy
Dan Ward, Matt MacGregor, Pete Modigliani
May 2021
Why the defense industry could be the most transformative market for startups
Mrinal Memon, Jeff Decker
May 2021
How The Navy Created A Culture Of Innovation In Big Bureaucracy
Alison Escalante
May 2021
US ‘Will Fail’ If Space Acquisition Doesn’t Reform: CSPC
Theresa Hitchens
May 2021
The Misplaced Fear of a Military Technology Gap
Shaun Waterman
May 2021
Reform the Pentagon's budget process, or lose our military and tech advantages
Dov Zakheim
Apr 2021
Free the Data: Vice Chiefs Launch an Acquisition Crusade
Patrick Tucker
Mar 2021
In the 21st Century, the DoD Must Think Software-First
Anduril Industries
Mar 2021
How Relevant is Speed?
Dave Riel
Mar 2021
A bridge fund can’t solve the Pentagon’s emerging tech problem
Eric Lofgren and Matt MacGregor
Mar 2021
Competing in Time: How DoD Is Losing The Innovation Race To China
Bill Greenwalt
Mar 2021
Agile Product Management: How To Build Weapons Faster & Better
Ian Fogarty and George Franz
Mar 2021
Reward Winners or America Loses
Trae’ Stephens
Mar 2021
The Price of Success vs. the Cost of Failure
Steve Carlson, James Chew, and Frank Schirrmeister
Feb 2021
The Pentagon Needs Budget Agility to Compete with China
Bryan Clark and Dan Patt
Feb 2021
The Innovation Wars: America's Eroding Technological Advantage
Christopher Darby and Sarah Sewall
Feb 2021
The New Administration Must Empower the Department of Defense to Wage Acquisition Warfare
Tyler Sweatt, Jason Knudson, and Enrique Oti
Feb 2021
Urgently needed: Tech-savvy defense leaders
Nate Ashton
Feb 2021
A Better Bureaucracy Can Close the Gap Between Defense and Commercial Technology
Steve Blank, Joe Felter, and Raj Shah
Feb 2021
To compete with China and Russia, the U.S. military must redefine ‘readiness’
Gen C.Q. Brown Jr. and Gen David Berger
Feb 2021
Maintaining America’s Technological Edge: Build on Our Strengths
Steve Blank, Joe Felter, and Raj Shah
Jan 2021
Pentagon Advisory Boards Need to Offer 10X Ideas, Not 10% Ones
Steve Blank, Raj Shah, and Joe Felter
Jan 2021
The Great Experimenter
Brian Everstine
Jan 2021
The Changing of the Guard in Defense Technology
Ryan Kramer
Jan 2021
Agile Appropriations: How DoD Can Operate More Like a Startup
Timothy Grayson
Jan 2021
How the Pentagon transformed its approach to information-age warfare
Ellen Lord
Jan 2021
The US Defense Industry In a New Era
Doug Berenson, Chris Higgins, and Jim Tinsley
Jan 2021
DOD Valley of Death: Closing the Two Year Gap
Matthew Steckman and Megan Milam
Jan 2021
The service is experiencing a technological evolution
GEN Mike Murray
Jan 2021
The future of defense is in public-private partnerships
US Reps. Moulton and Banks
Jan 2021
2020
2020 in review: Pentagon leads federal DevSecOps efforts
Dave Nyczepir
Dec 2020
How The Pentagon’s True Space Maverick Became The Soldier’s Best Friend
Charles Beames
Dec 2020
How To Win the Next War
Safi Bahcall
Dec 2020
AI Just Controlled a Military Plane for the First Time Ever
Dr. Will Roper
Dec 2020
How President-elect Biden can reinvigorate defense innovation
Trae Stephens and Steve Blank
Dec 2020
America’s military needs an innovation overhaul
David McCormaick and James Cunningham
Dec 2020
Use Legacy Systems as Tech Playgrounds for Innovation
Mackenzie Eaglen and John Ferrari
Nov 2020
Making the case for commercially successful tech
Peter Villano
Oct 2020
There's No Turning Back on AI in the Military
Dr. Will Roper
Oct 2020
The Best Tech for Troops (Needs an Easier Path to Reach Them)
Tony Demartino
Oct 2020
Defense Innovation is Falling Short
Christopher Zember and Peter Khooshabeh
Sep 2020
Acquisition Reform Requires Cultural Change
John Kovach and Artie Mabbett
Sep 2020
Keeping Innovators, After Attracting Them, Means Crossing the “Valley of Death”
John Tirpak
Sep 2020
The Pentagon is failing to scale emerging technology, senior leaders say
Jackson Barnett
Aug 2020
The End of America’s Era of Military Primacy
Christian Brose
May 2020
The Shrinking Private Supplier Base and Acquisition Reform
Gilbert Diaz
May 2020
The Case for a Unified Future Warfare Command
Safi Bahcall
Feb 2020
Should the Pentagon stop playing the role of venture capitalist?
Eric Lofgren
Feb 2020
2019
Why the Government Isn't a Bigger Version of a Startup
Steve Blank
Nov 2019
Solutions, Garbage Cans, and Platforms
Jason Rathje
Nov 2019
James ‘Hondo’ Geurts on Taking the Navy into the Next Wave of Innovation
Phil McKinney
Nov 2019
Failure is an option for DoD’s experimental agency, but how much?
Scott Maucione
Oct 2019
The Air Force's Kessel Run Is the John Travolta of Defense Acquisitions
Dan Ward
Sep 2019
The Pitfalls of Writing About Revolutionary Defense Technology
Laura Schousboe
Jul 2019
We’re Not Playing Acquisition Pac-Man Anymore
Dan Ward
Jun 2019
All This ‘Innovation’ Won’t Save the Pentagon
Zachery Tyson Brown
Apr 2019
Does the U.S. Still Lead the Way in Defense Acquisition Innovation?
Jen Choi
Mar 2019
Don’t Play Mob Ball: What Acquisition Pros Can Learn from Kids Soccer
Roger Thrasher
Jan 2019
Sci-Fi Acquisition: The Wrath Of Mid-Tier Krog
Dan Ward
Jan 2019
2018 and Earlier
The National Defense Strategy: A Compelling Call for Defense Innovation
Steve Blank
Feb 2018
The Red Queen Problem - Innovation in the DoD and Intelligence Community
Steve Blank
Oct 2017
Can the Pentagon do business with Silicon Valley?
E.B. Boyd
Oct 2015
Five New Rules for Defense Innovation
Stephen Rodriguez and Sam Zega
Sep 2015
Project Vulcan: Special Ops and the Tech Innovation
Anthony Davis, James Geurts, Adam Jay Harrison, Jawad Rachami, and Christoper Zember
Apr 2015
The Promise and Peril of Mac Thornberry's Defense Acquisition Reform
Fred Ferreira, Adam Jay Harrison, Emil Maine, John McGinn, and Stephen Rodriguez
Mar 2015
Innovation Warfare: Technology Domain Awareness and America's Military Edge
Adam Jay Harrison, Christopher Zember, and Jawad Rachami
Oct 2014
A New Defense Innovation Base
Adam Jay Harrison, Jawad Rachami, and Christopher Zember
Aug 2014
No More Solitude: How to Make DoD the Next Google
Adam Jay Harrison and Stephen Rodriguez
Aug 2014
“Special Forces” Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems
Regina Dugan and Kaigham Gabriel
Oct 2013
How to Build Good Stuff
Lt Col Dan Ward
Jul 2012