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Contentious Industry Relationships, Complex Acquisitions, Poor Talent Retention Choke Dod Technology Pipeline, Lucas Evans

Student Research Symposium

The DoD's acquisition-implementation pipeline is a critical piece of defense infrastructure whose struggle to adapt to the shift of technological innovation from the defense sector to the private sector continues to erode the Pentagon's technological edge. Without efforts to build resiliency into the three primary areas of this system: industry relationships, defense acquisition, and talent retention, the DoD risks being outpaced by its near-peer competition in emergent technologies, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, and cloud computing. Building resilience throughout the defense technology pipeline will pay dividends, but focused efforts to build a robust talent acquisition and retention system within the …