Pentagon Still Falls Short on Jump-Starting Innovation, Audit Says
The Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia.
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A decade after establishing an outpost in Silicon Valley to speed adoption of commercial technology by the US military, the Pentagon still struggles to apply innovations to major strategic challenges, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
The Defense Innovation Unit “does not yet have clear insight into whether it is making progress,” the GAO said in the report, which was ordered by Congress and released on Thursday.