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Inside the Innovation: How Hackathons Are Reshaping Government + Defense Collaboration

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Derek Pledger states that getting hackathons wrong has real-world implications for United States national security.

This episode explores how hackathons are being used as a catalyst to accelerate innovation and collaboration between the U.S. government, defense agencies, and the technology industry. Guests from NDIA and Maximus discuss the urgent need to bridge the gap between rapid technological change and traditional defense acquisition processes to maintain competitive advantage against global rivals like China.

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Hackathons are presented as a practical bridge from defense ideas to deployment.

This episode treats hackathons as a practical bridge between government ideas and something that can actually be used in the field. With NDIA and Maximus in the room, it keeps coming back to defense modernization, the valley of death, and the value of bringing operational…

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