A DEEPER DIVE
GETTING SCHOOLED
Capt. Alex Pytlar works with U.S. Military Academy cadets during a Hacking for Defense course in 2019. Hacking for Defense is currently taught at 44 universities nationwide. During the course, students learn problem-solving skills while working to find solutions to real DOD problems. (Photo by Brandon O’Connor, U.S. Military Academy at West Point)
used other-transaction authority agree- ments, commercial-solutions openings, the Small Business Innovation Research and the Small Business Technology Transfer programs, and other mech- anisms
to develop prototypes and
systems. But scaling those efforts into programs of record has proven daunt- ing. What’s more, those approaches have just been an end run around the prob- lem, McGinn said. “What we need to do is, instead of trying to fix the system again, how do we bring the best prac- tices into and adapt the existing system? Get the product managers, program managers, contracts officers across the department to help them bring some of these commercial ideas to their work.”
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In addition to his Army career, McGinn has experience within DOD, having served as the senior career official in the Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Base and as special assistant principal deputy under- secretary of defense for policy. He also spent a decade in senior defense indus- try roles, at McGinn Defense Consulting LLC, Deloitte Consulting LLP, QinetiQ North America, and Northrop Grum- man. He was also a political scientist at RAND Corp.
NEXT GENERATION INSURGENCY Te study is being funded by donations to the GMU Foundation in support of defense acquisition research from the
Common Mission Project and some of the leading companies in technology: Andu- ril, BMNT Inc., Improbable, Scale, Balius Partners and goTenna. The Common Mission Project is the nonprofit partner of BMNT, whose CEO, Peter Newell, is a former Army colonel who led the Rapid Equipping Force before retiring to lead BMNT’s mission of linking DOD with Silicon Valley innovation. Te Common Mission Project runs Hacking for Defense, which is now being taught at 44 univer- sities nationwide, as well as Hacking for Diplomacy and other mission-driven academic programs.
In addition to raising donations for the study, the Common Mission Project
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