Rivals, Allies Trying to Harness U.S. Innovation

摘要

Have you ever considered why U.S. armed forces have enjoyed a technological battlefield advantage for so many years? Perhaps it's just good fortune, or maybe divine favoritism, or possibly an insatiable curiosity coded into our DNA. In reality, the advantage results from various entities - academic institutes, government agencies, industry and the user community - unknowingly and yet intentionally working together to realize the nation's drive toward innovation. In the United States, we are blessed with numerous technical universities, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Georgia Institute of Technology on the East Coast to Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology in the West, with many other exceptional schools in between. These universities form the foundation of our tiered technology development process.