Hacking 4 Defense: The Future of Innovation in National Security

In a world where globalization makes it possible for adversaries to compete with American technologies, the United States must consistently innovate and adopt new tools and methods to stay ahead in the national security space. That was the message at a special panel held at Georgetown University on Monday, called "The Future of Innovation in National Security." It featured five panelists across the security space from the Pentagon, the Intelligence Community, and the private sector. The panel discussion was an extension of a course at Georgetown University called "Hacking 4 Defense" – for which The Cipher Brief is a media sponsor – which aims to use new methodology to find solutions to real national security challenges identified by U.S. government agencies. The key question of this endeavor was: "how we do gain advantage by not playing the same game that has been played before" and "force [the enemy] to engage with a different set of rules," said Milo Medin, Vice President of Access Services at Google and a member of the Defense Innovation Board, an initiative set up by former Defense Secretary Ash Carter in 2016.