The Defense Department is launching an investment office to channel money to the technologies it needs for the future fight. The Office of Strategic Capital will live inside the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu. Michael Brown led the Defense Innovation Unit for four years; he’s a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University now. In this exclusive conversation on the sidelines of an event the Navy League’s Center for Maritime Strategy co-hosted in Arlington Tuesday, he lays out his vision for the next generation of innovation in national defense.
