Structuring Change to Last: An Update on Innovation at the Department of Defense

In November 2022, the Deputy Secretary of Defense launched the Innovation Ecosystem initiative to focus the department’s innovation leaders on the task of removing systemic barriers that impede a healthy, competitive, innovation ecosystem. The effort identified nearly 50 of the most critical pain points that companies, universities, and innovators of all kinds are experiencing — each one representing a variety of individual obstructions to innovation.