Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Wednesday that the former chief executive of Google Eric Schmidt will be leading a new Pentagon advisory board to bring Silicon Valley's best innovative and practices to US military.
During the annual RSA cyber security conference that was held in San Francisco, Carter along with Schmidt has unveiled the new Defense Innovation Advisory Board, stating that it would allow the Pentagon to tap into technical intellects to brighten the focus on innovation.
Alphabet's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt assured that the new board would fill in the gap to bridge a breakthrough between the US military and the tech company's operative ideas. He also said that the group's vision is to implement upcoming technologies in order to resolve emerging problems.
Carter's initiative to the board is considered a latest effort to introduce innovation to the US military by siding with tech firms. The board's creation that was announced on Wednesday by the US defense chief has been his third trip to Silicon Valley since he run for office about a year ago.
Carter said, "If we don't innovate and be competitive, we're not going to be the military that the country needs and deserves, we should have done it a while ago."
Carter boasted arguably on the implementation of science and technology to broaden their militaries, as well as maintaining the edging competition with China and Russia. Both Carter and Schmidt mentioned that they will be selecting around 12 people to contribute on the board. Mainly on individuals who has experience with big private or public consortium, and a well adoptive excellence in recognizing new technological concepts.
The Pentagon claimed that the members will put together what they've learnt in Silicon Valley, and apply it to the new panel such as building quick prototypes, computational process of product development, analyzing complex data and more, where a senior defense official said, "The secretary is always looking at ways to keep the department thinking fresh, bringing in new ideas, bringing in new voices, and he sees this as another opportunity to do that,"
