Stacy Chin explains how to pitch innovations to the Department of Defense. Start by reading white papers from military experts to understand their priorities. Then network with defense leaders directly, through events, contacts, or cold calls, to learn what they actually need.
But luckily, there are a couple of things that you can do. So first, you can search on Google to find any white papers that highlight today's problems, recommendations for improvements, and current solutions written by military experts. And this is a great way to see if your innovation is aligned to what the DOD might be looking for. Second, you can try to network and connect with different leaders within the defense agencies to learn more about the challenges they're facing and ways they're interested to innovate. And so to make these connections, You can try to network within your local communities, attend networking events, reach out to your current network leads, or just good old-fashioned cold calling.
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