The Atlantic Council’s Commission on Defense Innovation Adoption released its final report today, providing recommendations and case studies for overcoming the challenges the United States faces in maintaining its technological and military advantage and increasing the pace of innovation adoption. […]

The U.S. defense enterprise is in a strategic predicament; the challenge for the Department of Defense (DoD) is no longer why or when innovation is needed, but instead how to innovate. […]

Fast-forward ten years: you’re settled into a comfy chair inside a permanent lunar ground station, and you find out that the internet service is lousy. Those and other off-Earth problems are what’s on the mind of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which announced this week that it’s soliciting input for a new capability study aimed at how to “rapidly develop foundational technology” for lunar infrastructure over the next ten years. […]

The Defense Department (DoD) recently picked 11 projects as part of a new program to bridge the “valley of death” for military technology. […]

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) declared on June 29 its adoption of a new “strategic concept” that names Russia as the “most significant and direct threat” to NATO allies’ security and stability, wraps cybersecurity initiatives more tightly into the alliance’s strategy, and establishes a Defense Innovation Accelerator “to bolster our technological edge.” […]