Shining a Light on the Defense Department’s Industrial Base Problems

Jeff Decker, PhD, and Noah Sheinbaum's Article in Texas National Security Review

With the recent release of the National Defense Industrial Strategy, the Defense Department has acknowledged the urgency of strengthening the linkages between a healthy defense industrial base and U.S. military power. Despite this, the views of defense-tech companies are often overlooked. Using original data derived from a new survey, Jeff Decker, PhD, with Stanford University’s Tech Transfer for Defense and Hacking for Defense programs, along with Noah Sheinbaum, founder of Front Door Defense, offer a number of steps the Defense Department can take to lower the barriers that companies face in converting disruptive commercial technologies into widescale defense capabilities.

Special thanks to the 859 companies who responded to the survey on "Doing Business with the Government." Those survey results helped create actionable findings that Decker and Sheinbaum recently published in the Texas National Security Review. Take a look at the article "Shining a Light on the Defense Department’s Industrial Base Problems" and we hope the findings are useful for you. If you are a startup or tech company looking to do business with the government in Defense and national security, feel free to reach out to us to learn more.

You can read the full article HERE.

Jeff Decker, Ph.D. is managing director of Tech Transfer for Defense at Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability and is a co-instructor of the graduate-level Hacking for Defense course. Follow his work at Stanford’s Hacking for Defense blog.

Noah Sheinbaum is the founder of Frontdoor Defense, a platform to simplify the defense industry for mission-aligned builders and operators. He also co-founded Defense Tech Jobs, a jobs board for defense technology companies, and consults for various purpose-driven companies.