Selby: Navy needs to 'check our ego at the door' to innovate

By Audrey Decker / April 5, 2022 at 4:52 PM
The Navy needs to "check our ego at the door" and use what industry has already built if the service wants to innovate quickly, according to Rear Adm. Lorin Selby, chief of naval research. "We tend to default, on the government side, that we have to design it, build it and own it,” Selby said today at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space conference. “We do so much of the legwork upfront that, quite frankly, is already being done by many companies...

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