The order borrows heavily from principles already established by the defense and intelligence communities, extending them to those outside the national security space.
Bases in San Diego, Washington state, Georgia and elsewhere will see new tech designed to help logistics and communications networks, among other things.
A look back at the relatively short history of the White House's chief technology officer role and accomplishments of the first four people to hold it.
The chair of the Defense Innovation Board, Eric Schmidt, technical advisor at Alphabet, Inc., opens the public meeting of the board, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 2018. (DOD / Lisa Ferdinando)
Eric Schmidt and other influential DIB board members, including Jen Pahlka, ended their four-year terms offering DOD advice on how to work better with tech.
The Jet Propulsion Labs’ Team RoboSimian 275-pound robot climbs out of a Polaris vehicle after driving through obsticles during the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge at the Fairplex June 5, 2015 in Pomona, California. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Coleman brings more than three decades of experience in government, academia and the private sector, working in leadership roles at companies like Atlas AI, Yahoo!, Nokia, Samsung…