The Defense Department aims to broaden its policy development process to include contributors from outside the Pentagon and its traditional sphere of influence, according to a Dec. 8 request for information seeking contractor input on the potential for "crowdsourcing." "The Office of the Under Secretary for Policy would like to develop and explore alternative future security environments using non-conventional sources" -- a shift that would "take the organization beyond depictions of the future security environment that are extrapolations of current...
