Senior leaders in the Pentagon and Congress should set aside a large sum of money every year at the start of the budget process and then hold competitions to determine who has the best solutions to the US military’s highest-priority operational problems. These competitions must be real-world events featuring operationally relevant problems, like Work’s scenario involving the real-time targeting of 350 ships, albeit on a smaller scale. These competitions should be open to the military services, defense industry, technology companies, government laboratories, and anyone else who can bring real
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