Can the Pentagon Learn to Be Flexible?
A Defense program tries to partner with tech companies.
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One of Washington’s biggest bureaucracies reaches out to do business with Silicon Valley’s agile and impatient entrepreneurs. What could go wrong?
Plenty, based on the initial struggles of the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx, the California technology outpost that’s a pet project of Department of Defense Secretary Ash Carter. DIUx’s role is to scout for new technology and help startups quickly get contracts with the Pentagon, Carter has said, without specifying the kind of projects he’s seeking.