US Air Force Leaders Discuss Defense Innovation Amid Strategic Competition

The Ash Carter Exchange on Innovation and National Security was held May 9, bringing together pioneers and champions of innovation from government, the private sector and scientific communities to examine how to advance collaboration in pursuit of national security.

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. were among those gathered at the event named in honor of the late Ash Carter, former secretary of defense and a trained theoretical physicist, who is credited with leading change and innovation throughout his four decades of service in government.

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