Duke faculty, the XVIII Airborne Corps and innovators from Fort Liberty met on June 6 at a defense innovation workshop to collaborate on bottom-up solutions as a part of their Educational Partnership Agreement. Presenters from the XVIII Airborne Corps, Duke University and the Civil-Military Innovation Institute met for a day filled with discussing innovation strategy, funding, education, training and implementing solutions to problems common to soldiers.
The list of problems in need of solutions starts with the XVIII Airborne Corps, which collects problem statements from soldiers at the ground level and works to refine them.
“We try to utilize resources such as design thinking courses, which Duke has provided in the past, to help refine those problem statements,” said Shawn Cooper, XVIII Airborne Corps Innovation Officer. Once we get those refined problem statements we either…
