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