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The Path Forward for DoD Innovation

Posted: November 23rd, 2016

By Jesse Ellman

Jesse Ellman is an associate fellow with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) at CSIS. He specializes in U.S. defense acquisition policy, with a particular focus on services and research and development contracting trends at the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security; U.S. defense industrial base policy; and recent U.S. Army modernization efforts.

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Third Offset Strategy has been a subject of considerable confusion since its rollout in late 2014, with Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work, its key architect and primary champion, working hard to clarify the path forward that Third Offset charts for defense innovation. At its core, as Deputy Secretary Work has noted, Third Offset is less an answer than a set of questions:

1. How does the U.S. maintain technological superiority in a world where the pace of technological innovation is increasing rapidly?

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