![]() ![]() ![]() “We’re going to see a lot of great commercial technology that we’re going to be able to apply to military problems,” Roper told SpaceNews in an interview. These companies will have an opportunity to win on-the-spot contracts from a pot of money estimated at about $40 million, said Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics. ![]() 5-6 in San Francisco focused on the space industry. Air Force has selected 30 startups and small businesses to participate in a live pitch event Nov. And if a good idea will require a lot more research and work than it seems on its face, those companies will know it.WASHINGTON - The U.S. They, along with NASA officials and military leaders, will judge the ideas, and “bring a name brand and a credibility to the program,” Buccino said. That’s where tech giants Google and SpaceX will come in. ![]() “We’re looking for a diversity of ideas - policy-based, high-tech, low-tech. “It’s intentionally ambiguous,” Buccino said. The 18th Airborne Corps, based at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, has held several iterations of a similar competition called Dragon’s Lair, which has spawned ideas like a military app designed to track benefits and support for relocated military family members, and an improved investigation and justice policy for handling sexual sexual assault cases. It has to penetrate all of CENTCOM.”īuccino has been part of competitions like this in other parts of the military. Innovation has to be part of who we are, and has to be in the air we breathe, in everything we do, across everything we do. military, we sometimes think of innovation as this function that we sprinkle on top of our plans once they’re developed, or this function that comes in as we’re developing a new idea,” said CENTCOM spokesperson Joe Buccino, the competition’s executive director. ![]()
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