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The public facing National Defense Strategy speaks of a thing called "The Speed of Relevance." I am just curious, with the pension of the bureaucracy to gravitate towards new organizational stand-up (Futures Command, Space, Cyber etc...) and an acquisition process that simply sees one reform after another while perpetuating the insanity of it all. Are we capable of transforming the mechanism to shape the conditions of our future?

As the NDS is nested within the National Security Strategy it is fundamentally important to understand how that phrase translates across the elements of national power—diplomacy, information, military and economic. This was underscored recently by Director Dan Coats discussion of four major challenges confronting our Intelligence Community—economics, crime, terrorism and technology.

Translating relevant response to these challenges with specific action plans-- strategically, operationally, and tactically—across government, industry and academia will be fundamental to any relevant shaping actions that will effect the conditions for our collective future.

Just curious. From a whole of nation approach, how do we:
1. Ensure that we are not just talking the talk or walking the walk across the national and international DIME ecosystem with a catchy buzz phrase?
2. Envision building upon the elements of power and translate the critical importance of interagency collaboration and engagement necessary to respond to global challenges at “The Speed of Relevance?”