Bad Idea: Expecting the Private Sector to Drive Innovation in National Security
Bad Ideas in National Security Series
November 30, 2018 — Samuel Brannen
It’s bipartisan Washington gospel that America’s private sector (“industryâ€) will deliver the innovation the country needs from next-generation national security technologies to future manufacturing competitiveness. Such expectation, however, is increasingly a bad idea without a far more strategic, centralized, and White House-driven approach to the challenges ahead. We are at the front-end of an era of rapid, disruptive technological change in which global competition is heating up, and first-mover advantage could prove decisive in markets and geopolitics for decades to come. National government-backed industrial policies, not markets alone, will play a decisive role in determining outcomes. The United States needs proactive strategies and not the kind of defensive, on-the-fly responses we’ve seen on artificial intelligence and 5G telecommunications.
https://defense360.csis.org/bad-idea-expecting-the-private-sector-to-drive-innovation-in-national-security/
