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, according to Pentagon innovation leaders. 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 (Open DAGIR) initiative was the office’s recognition that the government’s typical practice...
