Free story: DOD's innovation insurgents gain footing at the Pentagon

The Defense Department has established several new organizations in recent years focused on skirting the Pentagon's labyrinth bureaucracy to deliver innovative ideas, technology and people to the U.S. military.

But as these organizations -- like the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental and the Strategic Capabilities Office -- become increasingly institutionalized, some wonder how their roles and missions could change.

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