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How Dia Is Cultivating Google-Like Innovation
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency's Open Innovation Gateway is a wiki-style environment aimed at facilitating collaboration among the Agency's technology developers.
Credit: Defense Intelligence Agency
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is using cloud computing to foster innovation among government agencies, industry, and academia using a wiki-style environment called the Open Innovation Gateway that will facilitate collaboration among tech developers.
"We are targeting the garage inventor, the graduate student, and [traditional] industry," says DIA chief innovation officer Dan Doney.
Scheduled to launch at the end of this year or early next year, the Open Innovation Gateway will provide developers access to DIA systems through standard interfaces or Web service endpoints, using public key credentials. For a developer, the process would be similar to accessing a Google Map application programming interface and creating an app based on existing core technologies.
"What [Doney] is doing with the Open Innovation Gateway is creating a garden of innovation in our backyard so we are no longer chasing it," says DIA's Gus Taveras, noting that the government lags academia and industry by 10 years in innovation. Taveras says DIA hopes to reduce its time to market, adding new capabilities in 30 days instead of months.
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