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Navy Center for Innovation Launches CollabLab, Innovation Tools

Story Number: NNS130626-05Release Date: 6/26/2013 12:41:00 PM
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From Navy Warfare Development Command

NORFOLK (NNS) -- Navy Warfare Development Command's (NWDC) Navy Center for Innovation has launched a powerful new website designed to facilitate collaboration and spark innovation.

Noteworthy among the new features on its refreshed website is CollabLab, an easy-to-use, crowd sourcing platform for submitting ideas that can be built upon or commented on by others. A voting mechanism helps the crowd bring good ideas to the top, while pruning out others. Each submission is reviewed for applicability by subject matter experts and many sent forward to Navy leadership for implementation. Ideas are tracked by where they are in the review process.

"Every day our Sailors come up with innovative solutions to gaps or problems they face, but our mechanisms for collecting, improving, reviewing and distributing these ideas are cumbersome and confusing," said Rear Adm. Terry B. Kraft, commander, NWDC. "CollabLab's simple design and feedback mechanisms are the outlet many of our deckplate Sailors and junior officers can use to get their ideas viewed, refined, and ultimately implemented."

New to the site is also information on two working groups NWDC has recently stood up on behalf of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) - The CNO's Advisory Board (CAB) and the CNO' Rapid Innovation Cell (CRIC). The CAB, similar to the function of the General Board during the interwar years, is made up of senior military, academic and industry leaders charged with achieving national security through strategic problem framing and conceptual approaches employing seapower.

The CRIC is a group of enlisted and junior officer "disruptive thinkers" who are identifying and developing innovative solutions to many of the Navy's most pressing challenges.

The Navy Center for Innovation Blog, and resources for innovators such as "The Innovator's Guide" and a suggested reading list are also readily available on the site.

The NWDC Navy Center for Innovation's mission is to improve warfighting by reinvigorating and sustaining a culture of innovating within the Navy.

Its website can be found at https://www.nwdc.navy.mil/NCfi/default.aspx.>
For more news from Navy Warfare Development Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/nwdc/.

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