As hinted at earlier, I believe this time really IS different for the collaboration between the tech industry and DOD. Unlike the 20+ years of the Global War On Terror (GWOT), where the opportunities to deploy innovative technology were limited to data/analytics solutions largely used to track down and identify terrorists swimming in the sea of anonymity, in the last 24 months we've seen something different:
The return of Great Power Competition.
With the invasion of Ukraine, the proliferation of intermediate-range ballistic missile capability in the Middle East, and the rising tensions in Asia (China/Taiwan + North Korea), for the first time in decades the US faces the possibility of all-out, large scale war in multiple theaters.
Short of creating a massive standing force, the US will need to rely increasingly on asymmetric capabilities, precision enablers of conventional forces, as well as offensive cyber and electronic warfare. This will require a broad-based evolution and integration with multiple technology platforms, far wider and more pervasive than the use of data and analytics.
The "winner" of the GWOT investment in data was Palantir.
Who will it be in the Great Power conflicts on the horizon?
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