Atlantic Council Announces Partnership

The Atlantic Council and the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum today announced a new partnership.

The deal will take the form of an incubation agreement meant to facilitate "the establishment and growth of DEF and [give] them the tools to become nonprofit thought leaders in the national security arena," the announcement says. A board of directors, set to meet today, has also been formed.

The board members are Daniel Chiu, deputy director of the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center of International Security; retired Gen. James Cartwright; John Haederle, executive vice president of finance and operations at the Atlantic Council; Rachael Dean, vice president of public relations at Javelin; and Steve Grundman of the Atlantic Council.