Disrupting The Battlespace: Developing Ecosystems to Enable Dual-Use Defense Technologies for the DoD

Today, some of the best technologies in the world are developed within the US private commercial sector, creating potential to fulfill the Department of Defense's (DOD’s) demand for innovative, reliable, and efficient emerging technologies and systems. However, new technology is often developed outside of the DOD’s ecosystem by startups, making it difficult to forecast its potential impact, especially for defense and national security missions. With the additional uncertainty, instability, and hype of emerging technologies, close coordination between the public and private sector is required to ensure new technologies best serve the mission.

When US entrepreneurs and DOD investments work together, they can create what is likely the country’s greatest global competitive advantage: technological innovation at speed. This innovation at speed has the power and potential to provide an asymmetric advantage in national defense security, especially in light of China’s pacing threat. Therefore, close coordination between the public and private sectors is required, as today’s defense investment decisions will determine the technology and capabilities that warfighters can leverage to protect the nation.

Join GovExec and Booz Allen as we talk with leading experts about how defense leaders can understand, enable, and leverage today’s emerging, dual-use technologies to better equip and prepare today’s warfighter for tomorrow’s conflict.