The U.S. Army on Monday launched its "Fuze" program, motivated by Secretary Dan Driscoll's desire to instill venture-capitalist thinking into the service's trying-and-buying practices.
Why it matters: The Defense Department has long been chided for its poor behavior as a customer: product tunnel vision, slow uptake and failed launches.
Driscoll, sworn in some six months ago, told Axios he has become "frustrated by the calcified bureaucracy that slows our acquisition system."
Fuze, he said, "will finally unite the Army innovation ecosystem to speed acquisition."
Pakistani politician Hina Rabbani Khar remembers the horrific 2022 floods in her country as a turning point in the debate over climate change — and to what extent the practice of solar geoengineering should be considered.
Why it matters: Solar geoengineering — reflecting a small portion of the Sun's rays back into space to temporarily cool the planet — is increasingly being considered as climate change worsens extreme weather.
