Defense Dept. innovation officials discuss barriers to emerging tech

Pentagon innovation leaders say the Defense Department's aversion toward risk and change, coupled with its tendency to cling to traditional acquisition processes, are its biggest barriers to adopting new technologies and capabilities, Inside Defense reported.

Margie Palmieri, deputy director of DOD’s chief digital and artificial intelligence office, said the challenge is especially visible in issuing software contracts.

Palmieri said the launching of CDAO’s Open Data and Analytics Government-owned Interoperable Repositories initiative, known as Open DAGIR, was the office’s recognition that...