Defense Innovation Board Proposes to Fix DOD Acquisition Processes

I think it's a good recommendation. However, what's the plan for dealing with all the people in the process who are paid to say "no"?

And the flip side to Don's observation, what is the plan to deal with those who are afraid to ask?  From my experience, that would be more of a problem than the nay sayers.

Go ahead and make the suggestion. But I'm convinced that the only real innovation happens at the working level. There's probably a lot more of it than we ever hear about. That's not to say that all of it is good or really innovative. There's such a lack of institutional memory in acquisition that many things have been tried, succeeded, and were then forgotten.