BiF-4 Insights – Terry Pierce – Office of Homeland Security

HSARPA – 10% of budget in disruptive innovation

• Disruptive Innovation Group
• Air Force Academy
• 4,000 Bachelor of Science (B.S.) students
• They do social networking
• World of Warcraft and coordinating 16-17 people to attack a Dragon
• Flexible distributed control
• Multiple people getting the same information at the same time (working with Cisco)

LCD TV Case Study:

• We invent radical technology and build things, but don’t always implement them
• We don’t do a great job of imagining all the ways the technology can be used

Liquid Crystal:

• Discovered in 1888
• In 1968 RCA developed LCD’s
• Went on TV to disclose invention
• Subsequently put into solid state division within RCA
• RCA kills project
• Sharp wants to buy, but RCA says no
• Sharp then does 15 years of research and forms a secret company inside Sharp

We have things that will kill core competencies of some our organizations

• Challenge to us as a society how and when to commercialize some of our technologies in the national interests