Air Force Boosts Funding Cap for Promising Startups
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The goal of the matching fund is to support tech startup firms to bridge the ‘valley of death’ and rapidly scale up capability.
BAE Makes Big Bet On Small Companies: FAST Labs
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“This is not based on ownership. We leave them their freedom.”
“You Have To Be Willing To Bleed A Little Bit”: Roper On Innovation
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BOSTON: “It’s like running through a briar patch naked,” Will Roper said of trying to bring start-up companies into the service’s contracting model to keep apace of commercial innovation. “You have to be willing to bleed a little bit,” Roper, the Air Force’s top acquisition official told me in an interview last Thursday, after watching 10 newborn… Keep reading →
Can The Pentagon Protect Young Innovators?
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CRYSTAL CITY: Ash Carter created the Defense Innovation Advisory Board so the military could tap the expertise of a panel of civilian luminaries, from Google’s Eric Schmidt to pop astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. But the board is less interested in being oracular than in embracing and adopting enthusiastic young innovators. To paraphrase several participants at… Keep reading →