Defense Innovation Board Products

DIB products including UNCLASSIFIED final reports, terms of reference, and findings and recommendations are available to the public and can be accessed by clicking on the name of the report below.

2025

Pathway to Scaling Unmanned Weapon Systems	Terms of Reference
DIB Scaling Nontraditional Defense Innovation	Terms of Reference

2024

Optimizing Innovation Cooperation with Allies and Partners	Terms of Reference
Aligning Incentives to Drive Faster Tech Adoption	Terms of Reference
Lowering Barriers to Innovation	Terms of Reference
Building a DoD Data Economy	Terms of Reference

2023

Strategic Investment Capital Task Force Study: Terraforming the Valley of Death	Terms of Reference
National Defense Science and Technology Strategy Review: An Innovation Strategy for the Decisive Decade	Terms of Reference
National Defense Science and Technology Strategy Review: Preliminary Observations

2020

AI Test, Evaluation, Validation and Verification Information Sheet

DoD Workforce: Competing for Digital Talent, COVID-19 Lessons Learned

Joint Pathology Center Repository Enhancement

Appointing a Department of Defense Chief Digital Engineering Recruitment and Management Officer

Software Acquisition and Practices (SWAP) Report: Section 862 Initial Assessment

2019

Fully Networked Command, Control and Communications (FNC3)

Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)

Workforce Now: responding to the Digital Readiness Crisis in Today's Military

Campaign for an AI Ready Force

The Road to Zero Trust

The 5G Ecosystem: Risks and Opportunities for DoD

Software Acquisition and Practices (SWAP):

SWAP Vignettes—Full Package

SWAP Concept Papers—Full Package

SWAP Reports:

Clarification of Source Code

Primary Recommendation D2 Security Considerations

How to Justify Your Budget When Doing DevSecOps

SWAP Program Visits

Software is Never Done: Refactoring the Acquisition Code for Competitive Edge—Final

Software is Never Done: Refactoring the Acquisition Code for Competitive Edge—Supporting Documents

Sec 805 Draft Language

Data and Metrics Input

Preliminary Recommendations for Feedback

Appropriations Subgroup Report

2018

Software Acquisition and Practices (SWAP) Reports:

DIB Dos and Don'ts for Software (Ver .7 - Draft Working Document)

DIB Guide: Detecting Agile BS (Draft Working Document)

Defense Innovation Board Case Study Questions

Is Your Development Environment Holding You Back? (Draft Working Document)

Is Your Compute Environment Holding You Back? (Draft Working Document)

Defense Innovation Board Metrics for Software Development (Draft Working Document)

Defense Innovation Board Ten Commandments of Software (Draft Working Document)

2017

People and Culture:

Recommendation 1: Appoint a Chief Innovation Officer and Build Innovation Capacity in the Workforce

Recommendation 2: Embed Computer Science as a Core Competency of the Department through Recruiting and Training

Recommendation 3: Embrace a Culture of Experimentation Technologies and Capabilities

Technology and Capabilities:

Recommendation 4: Assess Cyber Security Vulnerabilities of Advanced Weapons

Recommendation 5: Catalyze Innovations in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Recommendation 6: Expand Use of Available Acquisition Waivers and Exemptions

Recommendation 7: Increase Investment in New Approaches to Innovation

Practices and Operations:

Recommendation 8: Improve DoD Access to Code

Recommendation 9: Establish Software Development Teams at Each Major Command

Recommendation 10: Make Computing and Bandwidth Abundant

Recommendation 11: Reward Bureaucracy Busting and Lower Barriers to Innovation

Recommendation 12: Forge New Approach to Data Collection Sharing and Analysis

Recommendation 13: Design a DoD Fast- Track for Major Technology and Initiatives

Recommendation 14: Incubate and Execute New Ideas from the Field

Recommendation 15: Create a New I-STEM (Innovation + Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Career Field

Recommendation 16: Establish Technology and Innovation Training Program for DoD Senior Leaders