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Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. The solution is to understand that an innovation pipeline requires different people, processes, procedures, and metrics, then execution. Newell ran the U.S. Problem 6: How to get started?

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