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National Defense August 2015 Scott Trail	How to Unlock Innovation at the Defense Department Existing barriers in defense acquisition suppress the innovation that abounds across the Defense Department.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 G. Pascal Zachary	The World According to DARPA The most famous name in American innovation today isn't Apple or Google. It's DARPA. Here's why
National Defense August 2013 Macgregor & Burke	Defense Industry Can Profit Despite Downturn For the first time in decades, the Defense Department must aggressively pursue value, not simply effort. The current practice of rewarding senior military leaders and defense appointees for effort, time, staff size and budget rather than bold, effective achievement must be arrested.
National Defense February 2014 Dan Parsons	Government Scientists Fight for Funding Government scientists want to preserve the surge of cash military laboratories have used to help troops fight the wars of the last decade in hopes that ongoing experimentation will help the military prepare for conflicts to come.
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Despite SecDef Pleas, Pentagon Is Losing the Innovation War As a result of not knowing what technologies are available, the military ends up with systems that become obsolete within a few years.
National Defense March 2015 Sandra Erwin	Defense Department Takes Steps to Energize Cutting-Edge Research The Defense Department is reorganizing its technology shop as it tries to light a fire under its science programs.
National Defense December 2006 Lawrence P. Farrell	DARPA Sets Tone for Technological Superiority Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England recently noted that the greatest long-term threat to America is not weapons of mass destruction, but rather the prospect of losing our strength in science and technology.
Fast Company October 19, 2011 Adam L. Penenberg	Regina Dugan's Innovative Strategy For DARPA DARPA director Regina Dugan is bringing speed and creative thinking to the Pentagon.
BusinessWeek July 23, 2009 Steve LeVine	Can the Military Find the Answer to Alternative Energy? DARPA, the Defense Dept. agency that helped invent the Internet, is setting its sights on clean-tech.
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 Adrian Slywotzky	Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? Here's how basic research and strong leadership can repair the broken U.S. business model.
IndustryWeek August 17, 2011	Smarter Product Development Global competition is in a take-no-prisoners mode. To compete, the U.S. manufacturing community is re-examining its innovation and product development processes to be better, faster and cheaper.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 J.R. Wilson	The Agency of Continuing Vision: DARPA Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and several reviews are being written of its contributions to various areas of military and civilian science and technology
Bank Technology News June 2010 John Pyrovolakis	Innovators: A Call to Action The Innovation Accelerator wishes to leverage great and innovative technologies developed in our nation's research universities and federal research labs on the strength of federal funding to empower our nation's banking industry.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006	DARPA selects Raytheon to Develop Secure Enterprise Network The award also calls for Raytheon to maintain and transition DARPA's existing networks to meet future requirements, which could potentially bring the contract value to more than $57 million.
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National Defense January 2007 Johnson & McLaughlin	To Defeat Terrorists, Military Services Must Innovate, Disrupt By any measure, reforming the half-trillion dollar, 3 million-member Defense Department is one of the largest innovation projects in history.
HBS Working Knowledge December 5, 2005 Govindarajan & Trimble	Not All Innovations Are Equal Innovative strategies alone -- without changes to either the underlying technologies or the products and services sold to customers -- drive the success of many companies. But now, the long-term survival of a company depends on strategic innovation more than ever before.
National Defense February 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Search Continues for Lighter Alternatives to Steel Armor The Army may have a tough time becoming a lighter and faster force as long as tons of heavy steel plates continue to bear down on its patrol and combat vehicles.
National Defense November 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Top 10 Disruptive Technologies for a New Era of Global Instability How the nation's military will keep up in a rapidly changing and dangerous world is the proverbial 64-million-dollar question.
CRM June 24, 2011 Elisa O'Donnell	Kill the Office of Innovation What it really takes to create a thriving innovation capacity within an organization.
Inc. June 2008 Jane Berentson	Editor's Letter Innovation often begins with a clever entrepreneur who manages not only to conceive a great idea but also to finance it, employ people to improve it, build a company around it - and, eventually, see it to glorious and profitable fruition.
InternetNews March 28, 2005 Michael Singer	DARPA Calls on HP For Battlefield Duty A new multi-million dollar grant will focus on improving the reliability of the Internet in military situations.
Bank Technology News July 2011 Howard Rubin	IT Austerity Is A Mistake With the intensity of technology in banking, it should be clear that the innovation "engine" of the sector must have continued funding and is the ultimate competitive focus.
Bank Systems & Technology March 29, 2006 Katherine Burger	You're Wearing That? Innovation is not just about new products and services, but also encompasses business model innovation, process innovation, culture innovation and management system innovation.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 J.R. Wilson	Directed-Energy Weapons Will be the Next Generation of Precision-Guided Munitions Directed-energy weapons are on the top of the wish list for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Information Today May 29, 2014	EBSCO Database Offers Resources for Military Members EBSCO Information Services' new Military Transition Support Center is a resource that families and members of the military can use during their transition to civilian life.
National Defense February 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors.
Wall Street & Technology June 16, 2006 Bob Violino	Top-Down Innovation CEOs have another - and an increasingly urgent - assignment to add to their leadership portfolios: driving innovation and tearing down barriers that may prevent it. Technology is playing a large part in new business models.
National Defense November 2010 Stew Magnuson	Defense Companies Make Calculated Bets On New Technologies Defense sector company representatives say they do not rely solely on government contracts from service laboratories or other agencies to lead their research and development efforts.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2008 Jill Jusko	Bookshelf: Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way your Company Innovates In their new book, Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson detail how to evaluate new growth opportunities, provide guidelines to manage innovation resources and suggest design rules to improve a corporation's innovation pipeline.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Jean Kumagai	U.S. Defense Dollars For Computer Science Plunge As long-term, federally funded projects become increasingly rare, some important problems aren't being addressed. However, it is critical for the future of IT in the United States and around the world that we figure it out.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Department Should Refocus Technology Spending, Experts Warn Investments in technology tend to miss the mark and do little to enhance the United States' competitive standing as a high-tech powerhouse, said Pentagon advisors and outside analysts.
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Firms Think Twice Before Investing in DoD The Pentagon needs to get creative as it plans the weapons of the future, officials have said, and it needs private-sector help.
Global Services November 29, 2007	The Future of Innovation The challenges are there, but so are the opportunities to open up vast new global markets through innovation.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 John Keller	DARPA takes another look at improving machine learning Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are approaching the software industry about a research project to advance the state of the art in computer learning.
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 Adrian Slywotzky	How Science Can Create Millions of New Jobs Reigniting basic research can repair the broken U.S. business model and put Americans back to work.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2008 John Teresko	The Incredible Shrinking Design Cycle DARPA research seeks CAD tools that can greatly speed development of MEMS-enabled microsystems.
National Defense March 2012 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	When Will the Military Services Come To Grips With a New Era of Austerity? Even with a smaller funding pie, the U.S. military services should be able to weather the coming budget reductions. But the services are anxious and insecure institutions. They want more, and they insist that their equipment is aging and in need of modernization.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Samuel J. Palmisano	How The U.S. Can Keep Its Innovation Edge Where, how, and why innovation happens is changing. If we're not careful, the U.S. will fall out of step with these new realities, and innovators and risk-takers will go elsewhere -- because they can.
National Defense December 2015 Stew Magnuson	Searching High and Low for Innovation Anyone who has attended an industry conference lately knows that the Defense Department is on a hunt for "innovation." It's the topic du jour.
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