The product in this case was a commercially-developed 4G cellular base station. His company spent about $30 million to participate in the Army’s Network Integration Evaluation, where companies get to show off their products in real-world environments to see if they meet current gaps in military capability. Kevin Kelly, chief operations officer, LGS Innovations “It’s looking like these solutions are having to migrate to a more familiar DoD format before all’s said and done,” said Kevin Kelly, chief operations officer for LGS Innovations, the federal subsidiary of telecommunications giant Alcatel Lucent.
Each of the military services wants to take advantage of rapid innovation in the commercial world, especially in the field of technology.īut sometimes, even when a product starts out its life as a commercial item, by the time it’s been altered to meet the Defense Department’s specifications, it bears little resemblance to its commercial roots and starts looking a lot more like a traditional military-specified item. Leaders from across the military still are struggling - and in some cases succeeding - at meeting military needs with items industry already makes. It has been 15 years since Congress told the military to start buying more commercial products using more commercial buying practices.
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