Innovation can’t wait.

That’s the message Army Materiel Command’s Commander Gen. Dennis L. Via left with Army leaders at the second Army Innovation Summit at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, April 5-6.

Hosted by AMC’s Research, Development and Engineering Command, the Innovation Summit is part of an AMC-initiated Innovation Campaign to address barriers to innovation and implement action plans toward improving warfighter readiness.

“Innovation is so important to the force today that you can’t wait a year. You can’t wait six months. You have to build momentum,” Via said.

Innovation Summits are quarterly events that bring together leaders from Training and Doctrine Command, Army Forces Command, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, among other organizations. The first summit was held Nov. 18-20, 2015, at Redstone Arsenal.

“Innovation does not come from technology alone; there is no silver bullet,” Wharton emphasized.

“We have to make tough choices. …The new ideas of today will become the great solutions of tomorrow.”

ENDS

The question is who's leaking?   This was our stuff -  tough choices, new ideas of today, great solutions of tomorrow.  They've even knocked off the empty container where the silver bullet used to be.

I think former Chief of Army David Morrison might be batting for both sides.  

In 2014 he let slip that we had a Manhattan Project working on "how science and engineering can combine with innovation and capability to address the challenging environment in which a future land force will fight".  In fact he let the Innovation word slip 6 times.  Careless?  Yes.  Cliche?  Beyond.

Thankfully he also speaks in tongues or code or impenetrable Wankese like this.

I think our data-matching and profiling might have sorted out whose gear Mr Morrison has been modelling.