The Pentagon's Pivot: How Lead Users Are Transforming Defense Product Development

Historically, the Department of Defense (DOD) relied on strategic forecasting to determine specifications for new military products.  These specifications are codified in formal product requirements that drive new product development (NPD).  This short brief paper touches upon new product development from historical viewpoints of World War II . . .  to the Cold War . . .  to today’s new security environment.  This strategy includes review of modern-day deadly warfare effects, such as IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and their effects) and new threats on the horizon, consideration of the budget and how the military must keep countermeasures and lead user innovation in product development principles on the forefront. 
 

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