If software and agentic AI are key to mission success, accelerate them to the front lines
A commercial prototype in a sandbox is different from deploying AI across classified networks.
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Building a predictive defense industrial base begins with artificial intelligence
AI-enabled workflows accelerate production, but cybersecurity and governance remain central.
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Biodefense is force protection: Ready today, prepared for tomorrow
A decorated combat aviator and biotech CEO advocates preparing for novel viral threats before the next crisis.
Federally funded innovation: A new era in research security?
Our latest Breaking Defense webinar examines how research security policies and practices must evolve to protect federally funded innovation, while ensuring scientific collaboration in an age of intense global competition.
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The small business making big investments to deliver advanced defense technologies
Employee-owned Physical Sciences Inc. has been scaling small business government R&D awards to solve some of the thorniest national security challenges.
Rep. Bacon: Enough talking about defense innovation. It’s time to make choices and move out.
In an exclusive op-ed, Rep. Don Bacon says Congress, industry and the executive branch need to stop hiding behind the word "innovation" and start actually producing systems.
Political leaders need to stop standing in the way of defense innovation
"Standing in the way [of innovation] are three roadblocks, none of which are technological, and all of which the next President and Congress should consider challenging," writes John Ferrari of AEI.
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Addressing the ‘four tyrannies’ of the Pacific to keep logistics flowing
Predictive artificial intelligence and autonomy will reshape how forces are sustained across the Pacific.
Mullen: Defense Department incentives need to change if the Mavericks are to survive
In this op-ed, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and current DIB board member Mike Mullen explains steps the DoD can take to foster an environment that incentivizes innovation.
Differentiating innovation: From performance art to production scale
In this op-ed, Andrew Metrick of CNAS explains why the DoD needs to get on the same page about innovation.
US defense modernization gets a ‘D’ grade in new report as tech roadblocks persist
“We're still looking for the ability to translate and transition those innovation priorities into capabilities, into programs of record, into budget priorities,” said Rachel Hoff, Reagan Institute’s policy director and one of the authors of a new scorecard evaluating progress in defense innovation.
While DoD progresses on innovative tech, more work left to be done: Report
The Atlantic Council’s Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption acknowledged in a new report that there were “broader, strategic matters” that “will take time to reach full implementation.”
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Acquisition reform at the speed of war
As part of the DoW’s acquisition transformation, streamlined processes must be extended to all companies in the defense industrial base.
Army acquisition chief: As industry innovation races ahead, service struggles with resources, training
“You can have a terrific piece of gear, but if it’s very difficult to train, it’s just not going to be as effective or if it’s too expensive to train on, it’s not going to be as affordable for the Army to do at scale and everything the Army does is at vast scale,” Doug Bush said.
INDOPACOM stands up new directorate to better connect industry, DoD innovation efforts
"So we think we can actually help make it easier for you to be able to get after the key programs that the warfighter needs," Adm. John Acquilino said.
How to leverage America’s software advantage in the decisive decade
Michèle A. Flournoy and Wendy R. Anderson lay out their vision for how the Pentagon can speed software acquisition in this new op-ed.
US gets an ‘F’ for erratic, unfocused funding of defense innovation, says Reagan Foundation
A ponderous budget process, overspending on old tech, and chronically late appropriations hamstring the Pentagon’s ability to tap into private-sector innovation, according to the foundation’s new scorecard.