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SPEED AND URGENCY IN SILICON VALLEY
With a startup mindset, military know-how and a wide-ranging network of technology partners, Peter Newell, the former head of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, and Jackie Space, a former Air Force of ficer and space systems program manager, work to construct a bridge between DOD and the high- tech innovators of Silicon Valley through BMNT Partners.
Peter Newell T Jackie Space
o get lifesaving technologies to the battlefield, BMNT brings together defense officials, warfighters and experts in computing, big data, cyberse- curity, energy, robotics and other areas that have military applications—and which are now dominated by tech companies, not traditional defense con-
tractors. Using cutting-edge methodologies developed in Silicon Valley, BMNT gets a diverse roomful of people working together on finding rapidly deployable solutions to battlefield problems.
BMNT was founded in Palo Alto in 2011 by Joe Felter, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces colonel, after he returned from Afghanistan, his final deployment. Felter had earned a doctorate at Stanford University in 2005 and was a U.S. Army War College fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution from 2008 to 2009. During his time in Palo Alto, Felter developed a strong network of entrepreneurs, investors, engineers and aca- demics interested in national defense. At the fledgling company, named BMNT after the military term meaning “begin morning nautical twilight,” the time of day when the sun is still below the horizon but light is just beginning to appear (the best time to attack and the worst to defend), Felter used this network to find consulting and advi- sory work focused on helping tech companies interested in working with the military.
In 2012, Felter met Army Col. Peter Newell, director of the Army’s Rapid Equip- ping Force (REF), who was visiting Stanford faculty members to get ideas for the REF. Te Army had given Newell command of the REF after he served two tours in
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