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Private and government defense and intelligence agencies must work together

To address today’s national security threats, the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, and broader national security community needs to hasten the use of 21st century technologies like machine learning and data analytics. But the current big proposals aren’t going to provide serious innovation at the scale the U.S. Government needs.

Highly respected innovators, including Eric Schmidt of Alphabet and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, recently rolled out a new series of recommendations to increase innovation across the Department of Defense (DoD).

Having led the implementation of similar programs at CIA, their recommendations sounded eerily familiar and I fear they won’t break the DoD out of its technology rut any more than they have at the CIA.

 Schmidt and deGrasse Tyson’s newest recommendations include: Building an accelerator, establishing a system to elevate new ideas, creating a new data science and innovation career field and launching a training program for technology adoption.