{"id":91963,"date":"2021-11-15T18:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/15\/hacking-for-defense-planners-look-to-expand-beyond-military-problems\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:16:37","slug":"hacking-for-defense-planners-look-to-expand-beyond-military-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/2021\/11\/15\/hacking-for-defense-planners-look-to-expand-beyond-military-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking For Defense planners look to expand beyond military problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the last five years, Army veteran Alex Gallo and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonmission.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Common Mission Project<\/a> have been partnering with military officials to use teams of college students in solving a host of equipment and personnel challenges at the Defense Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now the team wants to expand that idea to the rest of the world\u2019s problems too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re doing programs on hacking for the oceans and the environment and hacking for climate and sustainability at five different universities already,\u201d said Gallo, co-founder and executive director of CMP. \u201cIn society today, we solve too many problems in silos. This is a way to bring different groups together in a constructive problem solving process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/workforce\/education-training\/2018\/04\/03\/more-universities-to-offer-hacking-for-defense-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hacking For Defense program<\/a> has drawn headlines in recent years for its unusual approach to Pentagon problems, with programs at more than 50 college campuses, including England.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2021\/11\/15\/unc-law-students-help-vietnam-war-veteran-get-purple-heart\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6099980413_d57181e64a_o.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">UNC law students help Vietnam War veteran get Purple Heart<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Spencer served in the infantry in South Vietnam, where he was hit in the neck with shrapnel.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teams of college students \u2014 would-be engineers, computer scientists, public policy specialists and more \u2014 work together for a semester on an issue presented by military partners, with the goal of finding outside-the-box solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent topics tackled with help from the the National Security Innovation Network include developing anti-drone technology for special forces vehicles, improving portable batteries for personal battlefield use, and improving mental health support for military specialists facing higher rates of suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gallo, who served as an Army officer in Iraq, said the value of having individuals outside the military evaluate and propose answers to those problems is they aren\u2019t limited by military preconceptions about what the solutions should be<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen we arrived in Kuwait before entering into Iraq, we got a lot of cool equipment,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd our soldiers tried it out in the desert. And when we went into Iraq, that stuff stayed in storage for an entire year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was all solutions in search of problems. We had a ton of problems in Iraq that year, but none of what they gave us solved our problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students in the course (more than 500 have gone through the program so far) meet with front-line troops as well as military planners and leaders throughout the semester, to better understand the scope of the problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In one past project, Navy SEALs approached a class to help develop better health monitoring equipment for trainees, after several cases of hypothermia stalled training exercises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gallo said after extensive interviews, students determined the problem had less to do with trainees being unprepared for the elements than with insufficient navigation experience, which led to more time in colder temperatures trying to finish exercises. Instead of wearable health monitors, they recommended revamping how those skills were trained and tested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe SEALs also made it clear that any monitoring equipment they were issued was going to end up at the bottom of the ocean, which doesn\u2019t solve the problem,\u201d Gallo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials from the Common Mission Project said that over the last five years of the defense classes, they\u2019ve seen changes in how defense officials approach problem solving, and more openness on behalf of commanders to listen to outside views to challenges they would have dealt with internally in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/11\/15\/new-treatment-court-gives-nc-veterans-a-second-chance\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/VTC.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">New treatment court gives N.C. veterans a second chance<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The Catawba County Veterans Treatment Court is unlike most courts.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So Gallo said he wants to see if that bureaucratic turnaround can happen in other industries too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year CMP launched their new hacking programs, focused on issues like environmental sustainability, diplomacy and homeland security issues. The hope is that the lessons learned from the military partnerships can provide similar creative approaches to other social issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople ask me \u2018what problems do you want to work on?\u2019 and I tell them that I want to work on them all,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is about bringing more people into all of our problem solving processes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s also about showing future leaders more about social issues they hadn\u2019t considered as part of their career paths. 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