Introduction
Data, business processes, and stakeholders are siloed within and across organizations throughout the acquisition lifecycle. This occurrence is particularly evident in the defense industry, where there’s currently an unprecedented demand for exponentially faster decision-making in developing capabilities within national defense. Today’s defense acquisition environment requires greater speed to innovation to keep up with adversaries
and competitors. At the same time, defense acquisition leaders are also hindered — their challenges include limited capacity, insufficient capabilities, disconnected communication processes, inadequate collaboration, disparate systems and scalability issues. The result often leads to difficulty in identifying mission-innovating solutions, particularly related to dual use commercial technology, or innovations stuck in prototype phases without making it to full production.