In our role as partner, we are drawing on our deep experience serving defense and security agencies, leveraging our capabilities in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and digital risk, space, defense innovation, and climate change and sustainability, among other global defense initiatives. We are helping to shape the MSC agendas and breakout sessions and developing discussion groups to focus on today’s most pressing security and defense policy challenges.

Overcoming the Six Unspoken Barriers That Impede Defense Innovation

To improve innovation, defense ministries must confront a number of issues that pose outsized constraints but are not fully understood, appreciated, or addressed.

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Acquisition

Lauren Mayer

Project Leader
Washington, DC

Marc Giesener

Managing Director & Partner
Chicago
Artificial Intelligence

Steven Mills

Managing Director & Partner, Chief AI Ethics Officer, Global Leader, BCG Center for Digital Government
Washington, DC

Grantly Mailes

Partner & Associate Director, Emerging Technologies
London

Cate Blankenship

Partner
Atlanta

Adi Zolotov

Managing Director & Partner, Global Lead BCG X AI Science Institute
Washington, DC
Climate Change and Sustainability

Tina Zuzek-Arden

Managing Director & Partner
Washington, DC

Thilo Zelt

Managing Director & Partner
Berlin

Bailey Hand

Managing Director & Partner
Canberra
Cybersecurity

Michael Coden

Senior Advisor, BCG Platinion
New York

Nadjia Yousif

Managing Director & Partner, Chief Diversity Officer
London

Stefan A. Deutscher

Partner & Director
Berlin
Defense Innovation

Lauren Mayer

Project Leader
Washington, DC

Marc Giesener

Managing Director & Partner
Chicago
Space

Troy Thomas

Managing Director & Partner
Washington, DC

Matthew Martinez

Managing Director & Partner
San Diego

Rüdiger Schicht

Managing Director & Senior Partner
Zurich

Andrea De Blasi

Managing Director & Partner
Milan

Matt Kalmus

Managing Director & Partner
New York

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