A Blueprint for Digital Transformation at the Department of Defense

At a roundtable with industry and academia at the Defense Innovation Unit, I met a CEO whose company had developed a language translation app that was providing critical support across the Department of Defense. He shared that the department was paying high prices at the last minute across multiple siloed vehicles and customers. It was, he frankly said, a poor business model. He couldn’t plan for the support the department clearly needed, and the department couldn’t leverage enterprise scale and predictability to drive down the cost. It was bad for the taxpayer and bad for the company to be on The post A Blueprint for Digital Transformation at the Department of Defense appeared first on War on the Rocks.

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A Blueprint for Digital Transformation at the Department of Defense

At a roundtable with industry and academia at the Defense Innovation Unit, I met a CEO whose company had developed a language translation app that was providing critical support across the Department of Defense. He shared that the department was paying high prices at the last minute across multiple siloed vehicles and customers. It was, he frankly said, a poor business model. He couldn’t plan for the support the department clearly needed, and the department couldn’t leverage enterprise scale and predictability to drive down the cost. It was bad for the taxpayer and bad for the company to be on

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