US Navy creates innovation center, advisory board to focus investments

LTC Eugene Chu I are Smart! I are Retired Navy Cryptologic Technician! Past Master at Arms to Commander Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command/Naval Research Labs! LOL!

LTC Eugene Chu
..."The Navy in the last several years tightened its relationship with small businesses and academia to leverage their new products and research investments. A web of so-called Tech Bridges throughout the United States and globally provides a point of contact for a company or research group looking to pair ideas with a Navy or Marine community.

Del Toro said the Marine Innovation Unit and the Navy Innovation Center would not compete with the Tech Bridges but rather complement them by looking at broader tech development trends over a longer range of time, compared to the more immediate work the Tech Bridges do to put new gear in the hands of warfighters.

A soon-to-be established Department of the Navy Science and Technology Advisory Board will also help make strategic decisions about where to invest limited funds. Del Toro said the Navy selected individuals from a range of backgrounds for the board, and the White House will screen them before they formally join the board."

Was kind of hoping one of the Navy's investments might be Oceanography.

Everyone is getting on the same bandwagon . . . of course "to stay ahead of potential enemies". Preparation for A.I. warfare (what a concept!) as a result of quantum computer and machine learning?

I'm not a fan of government "leveraging private sector innovation rather than developing everything in-house."

The close relationship between government and industry leading up to Nazi Germany expansion . . . before the relationship became abusive to the population . . . was considered to be good for the economy, and admired by the U.S.A. in those years leading up to war.