High Timed to Re-boot The Partnership Between Pentagon and Silicon Valley

High Timed to Re-boot The Partnership Between Pentagon and Silicon Valley. 

High Timed to Re-boot The Partnership Between Pentagon and Silicon Valley.

("Mike Brown Contributor Mike Brown is the director of the Defense Innovation Unit. Prior to DIU, Mike served as CEO of Symantec Corporation and Chairman and CEO of Quantum Corporation. Mike also served for two years as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow at DoD where he co-authored a Pentagon study on China's participation in the U.S. venture ecosystem. The views expressed in the article reflect those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government).  

Since, without any caution, Russia plunged an anti-satellite projectile into low-earth orbit on November 15, 2021, successfully destroying a Russian satellite. 

Missile wreckages from this event not only imperil the astronauts aboard the International Space- Station. 

But also could occur acute damages to satellites that support critical infrastructure here on Earth, like GPS(Global Positioning System) and power grids, for many years to retrieve.

A month earlier, China also launched a hypersonic missile that encircled the Earth and was next to impossible to resist with any existing current technology.

Time has arrived to treat these events as a bugle call for The United States technological leadership is not assertive. 

Since new technological expansions are giving rise to new threats to our nation’s securities, the global degree we developed so far and maintained with our associates and allies is being re-sketched.

Realistically, these new menaces are not invincible at all. 

These events should serve as a cornicle call for our entrepreneurs and investors to collectively draw their focus on emerging technology domains, including artificial intelligence (AI), space, cybersecurity, and autonomous systems.

We– Pentagon, academia, and industry – need to work collectively now, as we did more than 60 years ago to established-Silicon Valley and our nation’s technological leadership today. 

To -meet the ascending challenges given rise by off-balance and cyber warfare. 

State investments particularly helped to create the internet and semiconductors, as well as map the human genes.

I came to the Department of Defense after 30 years in the commercial technology sector to help reconstruct the fastening that endorsed much of our country’s economic resistance and global leadership over the past half-century.

Why relight the DoD-Silicon Valley connection?

As of now, it's much more important to relight the DoD-Silicon Valley connection there have a few reasons are.

The United State's Dod (Department of Defense

The United State's DoD (Department of Defense) ardently follows a technology modernization agenda. 

It's, not only speculates the changing nature of warfare- but also kindles a series of necessary business process reforms. For- an -instance in commercial space, companies are already deploying small satellites to furnish more inclusive internet access and evolve rapid launch aptitude to deliver payloads to various geospatial layers. 

Self-driving cars are surveilling transportation options; surging drones are surveilling oil pipelines and inspecting commercial buildings and infrastructure.

All these innovations are- followings of dual-use technologies, it meanings there have military applications to boot. 

Collaborating- with these solutions is supported by global cloud options that are affordable, secured, and ductile. 

The US Military demands to equipage the penetrations stored with ample- data to initiate conjecturing ability.

As well- as constant AI(Artificial Intelligence) and knowledge engineering that generates rapid and sharpened inventing-decision, just like other corporations do.

To -improve our defense gesture, business action rehabilitations are equally important, and high-timed demand. 

As for the DoD’s (Department of Defense) major, business methods were rooted in the 1960s and still centered on fabricating sizeable weapons platforms such as tanks, ships, and planes. 

To bring prompt upgrades in the commercial sector, which pledge to enhance our military’s technological fringe. 

That means its high-timed Pentagon is now required to procure vast technologies that integrate its supplementary weapons platforms.

It's -certain the forthcoming decade will be one distinguished by acute competition among nations for achieving supremacy in technology. 

For a rising number of commercial dealers, this will constitute an unparalleled- event to confront intricate problems collectively with the Defense Department.

Thoughtfully, the national security apparatus is constructively the substantial collection of sensors in the world with assets in air, space, undersea, on land, and in cyberspace. 

Yet these sensors are not originated to precisely integrate; contrary, those are ordinarily built and operated in the armory, formulating it challenging to achieve updates and develop a typical operating picture. 

Architecting an Internet of Things in space—a global sensor network  – would deliver real-time situational awareness, a flexible communications infrastructure as a spine for operational resolution— and the basis for an independent force of sea, land, air, and space systems- minute, frequent and agile.

Such methodology will engender enormous amounts of data requiring increased storehouse, management, analytics, and technology modernization. 

It means building the best tools to collect information, analyze it, comprehend it, and make better decisions in the interest of national security. 

It will also engage more futuristics protection from cyber exposures. The bodily disclosure of these new potentialities will require greener energy use.

Earlier, such technologies are developed- by commercial companies, and- the DoD must expand its range to rapidly- rated and competently secure these solutions — escalating our national security and navigating the commercial flourishing of our country. 

To attain the success of this vision to broaden up space means more companies than ever before ensuring their participation straightway-to grab the opportunity that also enhances national security in the 21st Century.

Defense Innovation Unit: DoD’s startup

Convey the best technology to our military, likewise-Defense Secretary Ash Carter acknowledged the necessity to discompose institutional barriers and introduce fresh ideas, technologies, and systems from the commercial sector. 

To reconstruct this connection, in 2015, he announced the opening of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). DIU was- planned to lead innovative and faster-contracting mechanisms to bear, make it easier, more expectable, and more beneficiary to do business with the DoD.

At DIU, we've already observed how potent this collaboration can be, from catering current investment at the key- points of hardware and software circulation, constant access to trial facilities, and exhibiting commercial companies a path to linear growth in the defense sector. 

This participation can hasten product development or incite a company's development thriving investors to access new markets.

In- fact, sustaining U.S. guidance in key technologies highly- requires changing their 60-years-old possession systems. 

DoD is no more- the first mover, primary investor, or market maker for many technologies today. 

DoD needs to befit a fast retainer, reshaping and combining commercial technology to resolve defense problems. By doing this DIU is advocating its measures in the followings three areas:

1. Resolving problems immediately with a feasible commercial resolution instead of being tied by defense-defined requirements for custom military solutions
2. Consolidating investments, shifting at commercial speed, and ascending opportunities
3. Constructing resilience into the budgeting process, it takes up to three years today to program and spends a dollar for defense needs

These three areas may seem pronounced- but getting the better of chronic citation in defense planning as -well as Congressional approval is not easy.  

And to be assured that we can make the sound business event to technology firms of supporting work in national security is indispensable since the markets to serve outside defense is colossal.

Escalating the rate of change and unfastening obstacles cannot be done solely inside the DoD or with few designated commercial companies' engagements. 

These need all sides of the triplex of business, academia, and the government assiduously betrothed, furnishing unique ideas and methods to accelerate our pace of modernization. 

Reconstructing the interrelation between DoD and commercial industry — from interchanging talent, procuring products, maintaining open communications on fundamental issues — is critical.

DoD leadership already acknowledges and comprehends that we are surrounded by a technological moment unlike any other in our nation’s history. 

DIU has to play a unique and vital role in acquiring commercial technology and methodologies to upgrade both critical parts of the military’s infrastructure.

Collectively, we had have done in the past with the emergence of Silicon Valley, we can establish a secure and fully flourishing future for our nation.