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'@@ -2,17 +2,20 @@ The '''National Security Innovation Network''' (privously named the '''MD5 National Security Technology Accelerator''') is a [[United States Department of Defense]] (DoD) program office under the [[Defense Innovation Unit]] that seeks to create new communities of innovators to solve national security problems. NSIN partners with national research universities and the venture community to reinvigorate civil-military technology collaboration. As opposed to making investments in specific technologies, government research and development programs, or startups, NSIN focuses on human capital innovation - i.e., developing and enabling innovators and human-centered networks to solve national security problems. In support of this mission, NSIN provides tools, training, and access to DoD assets that enable entrepreneurs and [[Intrapreneurship|intrapreneurs]] to develop and commercialize high potential products in the national interest. -First conceived in 2015,<ref>Harrison, Adam Jay, and Paul Horn. "National Security Technology Accelerator: A Plan for Civil-Military Industry Innovation." 2015.</ref> MD5 launched on October 14, 2016<ref>“MD5 – A New Department of Defense National Security Technology Accelerator – Officially Launches with Disaster Relief Hackathon in New York City.” Press Operations - U.S. Department of Defense, October 14, 2016. https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/974626/md5-a-new-department-of-defense-national-security-technology-accelerator-offici </ref> and was part of the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy.<ref>http://www.acq.osd.mil/mibp/programs/industrial-base-assessments/md5.html </ref> MD5 was formed in partnership with the [[National Defense University]] at [[Fort Lesley J. McNair]] in Washington, DC and its headquarters is now located in Arlington, VA. Adam “Jay” Harrison, former founder and managing director of Mav6, served as the inaugural director of MD5 from October 2016 until January 2018. The current Managing Director is Morgan Plummer<ref>{{cite web|title=DoD's Innovation Accelerator|url=https://insidedefense.com/inside-pentagon/dods-innovation-accelerator-plans-continued-expansion-through-fy-18|accessdate=21 May 2018}}</ref>. +== History == +First conceived in 2015,<ref>Harrison, Adam Jay, and Paul Horn. "National Security Technology Accelerator: A Plan for Civil-Military Industry Innovation." 2015.</ref> MD5 launched on October 14, 2016<ref>“MD5 – A New Department of Defense National Security Technology Accelerator – Officially Launches with Disaster Relief Hackathon in New York City.” Press Operations - U.S. Department of Defense, October 14, 2016. https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/974626/md5-a-new-department-of-defense-national-security-technology-accelerator-offici </ref> and was part of the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.acq.osd.mil/mibp/programs/industrial-base-assessments/md5.html|title=Industrial Base Assessments|last=|first=|date=|website=U.S. Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415032716/http://www.acq.osd.mil:80/mibp/programs/industrial-base-assessments/md5.html|archive-date=2017-04-15|dead-url=|access-date=2019-07-04}} </ref> MD5 was formed in partnership with the [[National Defense University]] at [[Fort Lesley J. McNair]] in Washington, D.C. As of 2018, its headquarters was in Arlington, VA. -On May 6, 2019, the program was renamed from MD5 to NSIN as part of a reorganization in which it was transferred from the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering) into the Defense Innovation Unit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.c4isrnet.com/pentagon/2019/05/13/the-pentagon-wants-to-create-a-broader-network-of-innovators/|title=The Pentagon wants to create a broader network of innovators|last=Gruss|first=Mike|date=2019-05-13|website=C4ISRNET|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> +[[Adam Jay Harrison|Adam “Jay” Harrison]], former founder and managing director of Mav6 LLC, served as the inaugural director of MD5 from October 2016 until January 2018. The current Managing Director is [[Morgan Plummer]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://insidedefense.com/inside-pentagon/dods-innovation-accelerator-plans-continued-expansion-through-fy-18|title=DOD's innovation accelerator plans continued expansion through FY-18|last=Doubleday|first=Justin|date=2018-01-10|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|accessdate=21 May 2018}}</ref> + +On May 6, 2019, the program was renamed from MD5 to NSIN as part of a reorganization in which it was transferred from being directly under the Office of the [[Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering|Under Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering)]] into the Defense Innovation Unit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.c4isrnet.com/pentagon/2019/05/13/the-pentagon-wants-to-create-a-broader-network-of-innovators/|title=The Pentagon wants to create a broader network of innovators|last=Gruss|first=Mike|date=2019-05-13|website=C4ISRNET|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> == Structure == -[[File:MD5 Structure.png|thumb|400px|MD5 organizational structure]] +[[File:MD5 Structure.png|thumb|400px|MD5 organizational structure as of 2016|alt=]] NSIN consists of a portfolio of programs designed to build a defense innovation workforce that creates ventures relevant to both national security and high-potential civilian applications. These programs are organized in three broad categories: education, collaboration, and acceleration. -NSIN’s Education portfolio aims to educate entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs about innovation and national security problems through programs like Hacking for Defense<ref>http://www.h4di.org </ref> and MD5 Boot Camp.<ref>https://www.md5.net/bootcamp</ref> Hacking for Defense, a university-sponsored class that teaches students to work with the DoD to better address national security challenges, was first taught at [[Stanford University]] by [[Steve Blank]] in the spring of 2016. One team from the pilot class, [[Capella Space]], has secured a combination of DoD and venture capital funding and is scheduled to send the first U.S. commercial synthetic radar satellite into orbit next year.<ref>Yoon, Sangwon. “Stanford Class Challenges Students to Pick Defense Over Google.” Bloomberg, November 30, 2016. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/stanford-class-challenges-students-to-pick-defense-over-google</ref> Since then, Hacking for Defense has expanded to [[UC San Diego]],<ref>http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/hackingfordefense/ </ref> [[Georgetown University]],<ref>http://www.hacking4defensegu.com </ref> [[University of Pittsburgh]],<ref>http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/hacking4defense/ </ref> [[James Madison University]],<ref>http://jmuxlabs.org/hacking-4-defense/</ref> the [[University of Southern Mississippi]],<ref>http://hacking4defense.st.usm.edu/ </ref> and the University of Colorado Boulder and has been featured in news publications such as The Washington Post<ref>Gregg, Aaron. "These college students invent things for the Pentagon, and maybe find a business." The Washington Post, February 19, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/these-college-students-invent-things-for-the-pentagon-and-maybe-find-a-business/2017/02/19/558ac8f0-ea25-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html</ref> and Foreign Policy.<ref>Ricks, Thomas. "A neat new way to attack military problems: ‘Hacking for Defense’." Foreign Policy, January 25, 2017. https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/25/a-neat-new-way-to-attack-military-problems-hacking-for-defense/.</ref> +NSIN’s Collaboration portfolio connects innovators inside and outside of the Department of Defense to solve national security problems. Hacking for Defense,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.h4di.org/|title=Hacking for Defense Inc. (H4D-i)|website=H4Di|language=en|access-date=2019-07-04}} </ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/these-college-students-invent-things-for-the-pentagon-and-maybe-find-a-business/2017/02/19/558ac8f0-ea25-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html|title=These college students invent things for the Pentagon, and maybe find a business|last=Gregg|first=Aaron|date=2017-02-19|website=Washington Post|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/25/a-neat-new-way-to-attack-military-problems-hacking-for-defense/|title=A neat new way to attack military problems: ‘Hacking for Defense’|last=Ricks|first=Thomas E.|date=2017-01-25|website=Foreign Policy|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> a university-sponsored class that teaches students to work with the DoD to better address national security challenges, was first taught at [[Stanford University]] by [[Steve Blank]] in the spring of 2016. One team from the pilot class, [[Capella Space]], secured a combination of DoD and venture capital funding and was scheduled to send the first U.S. commercial synthetic radar satellite into orbit in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/stanford-class-challenges-students-to-pick-defense-over-google|title=Stanford Class Challenges Students to Pick Defense Over Google|last=Yoon|first=Sangwon|date=2019-07-04|work=Bloomberg|access-date=2019-07-04|language=en}}</ref> Since then, Hacking for Defense has expanded to [[UC San Diego]],<ref>http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/hackingfordefense/ </ref> [[Georgetown University]],<ref>http://www.hacking4defensegu.com </ref> [[University of Pittsburgh]],<ref>http://www.engineering.pitt.edu/hacking4defense/ </ref> [[James Madison University]],<ref>http://jmuxlabs.org/hacking-4-defense/</ref> the [[University of Southern Mississippi]],<ref>http://hacking4defense.st.usm.edu/ </ref> and the University of Colorado Boulder. [[File:MD5 NYC Hackathon.png|thumb|300px|[[James E. Leonard|FDNY Chief James Leonard]] & Col. Pat Mahaney discuss disaster challenges that affect millions at MD5 Hack NYC on October 14, 2016.]] -NSIN’s Collaboration portfolio connects innovators inside and outside of the Department of Defense to solve national security problems. MD5 Hack is a series of hackathons focusing on areas of shared civil-military interest. NSIN’s inaugural hackathon took place on October 14-16, 2016 in Brooklyn, NY, where over 100 hackers worked to solve humanitarian assistance and disaster relief challenges faced by military personnel and first responders.<ref>Wait, Tammy. "MD5 Launches with Disaster Relief Hackathon in NYC." American Security Today, October 15, 2016. https://americansecuritytoday.com/dods-md5-launches-disaster-relief-hackathon-nyc/.</ref> <ref>https://www.md5.net/hackathonf16 </ref> NSIN also sponsors Fed Tech, an accelerator program that pairs entrepreneurs with technologies from federal labs to conduct customer discovery and business model development.<ref>http://www.fed-tech.org</ref> Lastly, NSIN promotes collaborative innovation virtually through an online platform, MD5.net, which includes modules for specific innovation communities, such as Marine Makers.<ref>https://www.md5.net/marinemaker</ref> +MD5 Hack is a series of hackathons focusing on areas of shared civil-military interest. NSIN’s inaugural hackathon took place in October 2016 in [[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York]], where over 100 hackers worked to solve humanitarian assistance and disaster relief challenges faced by military personnel and first responders.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americansecuritytoday.com/dods-md5-launches-disaster-relief-hackathon-nyc/|title=MD5 Launches with Disaster Relief Hackathon in NYC|last=Waitt|first=Tammy|date=2016-10-15|website=American Security Today|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> <ref>https://www.md5.net/hackathonf16<nowiki/>{{Dead link|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}} </ref> NSIN Boot Camp also falls under the Collaboration portfolio.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsin.us/bootcamp/|title=Bootcamp|last=|first=|date=|website=U.S. National Security Innovation Network|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> NSIN also sponsors Fed Tech, an accelerator program that pairs entrepreneurs with technologies from federal labs to conduct customer discovery and business model development.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fedtech.io/|title=FedTech Startup Studio|last=|first=|date=|website=FedTech|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> Lastly, NSIN promotes collaborative innovation virtually through an online platform, MD5.net, which includes modules for specific innovation communities, such as Marine Makers.<ref>https://www.md5.net/marinemaker<nowiki/>{{Dead link|date={{subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{subst:CURRENTYEAR}}}}</ref> NSIN’s Acceleration portfolio provides funding, prototyping, and infrastructure resources needed to translate high potential concepts into minimum viable products or prototypes. The NSIN Proof of Concept Center (PoCC) at the [[University of Southern Mississippi]] provides digital design and manufacturing resources in support of distributed prototyping. The PoCC supports the Commandant of the Marine Corps Innovation Challenges by building hardware prototypes of concepts [[Crowdsourcing|crowdsourced]] from the active duty Marine community. Other Acceleration portfolio programs include the Defense Innovation Proving Ground, an effort led by the [[West Virginia University]] that furnishes DoD research and development infrastructure to startups developing technologies relevant to national security, and the Deep Tech Studio, an Innovator-in-Residence program at [[New York University]] that applies technology from DoD laboratories to real-world defense and commercial applications. @@ -20,5 +23,5 @@ == Recognition == -NSIN has received recognition from the highest levels of government. [[Paul J. Selva|General Paul Selva]], [[Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]], has stated, "Through programs like MD5, the defense department will continue to cultivate innovation and creative problem solving as a core leadership competence and expand opportunities to collaborate with our partners in academia and industry to solve our biggest national security challenges."<ref>“MD5 – A New Department of Defense National Security Technology Accelerator – Officially Launches with Disaster Relief Hackathon in New York City.” Press Operations - U.S. Department of Defense, October 14, 2016. https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/974626/md5-a-new-department-of-defense-national-security-technology-accelerator-offici </ref> NSIN was also recognized by the White House as one of the top innovation accomplishments of the Obama Administration.<ref>“FACT SHEET: Celebrating President Obama’s Top 10 Actions to Advance Entrepreneurship, and Announcing New Steps to Build on These Successes.” Office of the Press Secretary - The White House, November 30, 2016. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/30/fact-sheet-celebrating-president-obamas-top-10-actions-advance</ref> +NSIN has received recognition from the highest levels of government. [[Paul J. Selva|General Paul Selva]], [[Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff]], has stated, "Through programs like MD5, the defense department will continue to cultivate innovation and creative problem solving as a core leadership competence and expand opportunities to collaborate with our partners in academia and industry to solve our biggest national security challenges."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dod.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/974626/md5-a-new-department-of-defense-national-security-technology-accelerator-offici/|title=MD5 – A New Department of Defense National Security Technology Accelerator – Officially Launches with Disaster Relief Hackathon in New York City|last=|first=|date=2016-10-14|website=U.S. Department of Defense|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2019-07-04}} </ref> NSIN was also recognized by the White House as one of the top innovation accomplishments of the Obama Administration.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/11/30/fact-sheet-celebrating-president-obamas-top-10-actions-advance|title=FACT SHEET: Celebrating President Obama’s Top 10 Actions to Advance Entrepreneurship, and Announcing New Steps to Build on These Successes|date=2016-11-30|website=whitehouse.gov|language=en|access-date=2019-07-04}}</ref> == See also == '