Government

The US Department of Defense (DoD) in general, and the US Air Force, in particular are some of the largest funders of R&D and new technology development. Large acquisition programs such as the F-35 program, the GBSD (now called Sentinel) program etc. cost billions of dollars, decades to develop and are expected to last more than half a century. As such DoD is a major stakeholder in the field of technology and innovation management and home to countless practitioners of the field.

TechNext research helps forecast technological progress decades into the future for new and emerging technologies and TechNext currently has $2.24 million in DoD contracts to build tools for acquisition planning