Defense innovation leaders push for new technology transfer fund

摘要

Influential defense innovation leaders, asserting the Defense Department's slow budget process is hindering the adoption of new technology, are recommending Congress establish a technology transfer fund to serve as a "bridge fund" between promising prototypes and large programs of record. Mike Brown, director of the Defense Innovation Unit, said today lawmakers are discussing the establishment of an innovation fund to help DOD transition technologies outside of the normal budgeting process known as the program objective memorandum cycle. "This scaling innovation fund is now being talked about among members of Congress, fortunately both authorizers … and appropriators," he said at a March 16 event hosted by DIU.