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New Market. The Pentagon has launched an experimental website dubbed the Defense Innovation Marketplace
(http://www.defenseinnovationmarketplace.mil/) that it
describes as “a centralized online resource to better connect industry
with government customers to invigorate innovation.” Part of the
Pentagon’s Better Buying Initiative, the site says it is intended to be
the place for industry to “learn about Department of Defense
investment priorities and capability needs, and comply with the new
Defense Federal Acquisition Supplement (DFARs) rule.” The marketplace
could eliminate the need for some conferences, Jack Blackhurst, director
of the Human Effectiveness Directorate at the Air Force Research
Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, tells American Forces Press Service.
"There's a wealth of information that doesn't exist anywhere else,"
he says. The site was created to address communication issues between
industry and the Pentagon, Ron Kurjanowicz, senior adviser to the
secretary of defense for research and engineering, tells AFPS.
“Industry needs to know where DoD is making its changes, so they can
align their investments with the capabilities of the future,” he says.
The site is updated nearly every day. |
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