We foster innovation through direct and constant collaboration between service members and researchers, creating solutions designed to fit warfighters’ needs from the beginning.
Our Mission
About Us
The Civil-Military Innovation Institute (CMI2) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit that bridges the gaps in defense innovation, creating functional solutions to support the warfighter with immediate impact and effect. We call it ‘Innovation in the Dirt™,’ a frontline approach to fostering military modernization.
CMI2 offers management capabilities such as senior military expertise, university innovation, and commercial research. CMI2 supports the idea of creating and utilizing a dynamic civil-military innovation workforce in partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and public safety communities.
CMI2 builds close relationships with military units and service members to understand requirements, the cornerstone of our work. So, CMI2 team members are embedded with Soldiers and warfighters at installations nationwide.
About Us
The Civil-Military Innovation Institute (CMI2) is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit that bridges the gaps in defense innovation, creating functional solutions to support the warfighter with immediate impact and effect. We call it ‘Innovation in the Dirt™,’ a frontline approach to fostering military modernization.
CMI2 offers management capabilities such as senior military expertise, university innovation, and commercial research. CMI2 supports the idea of creating and utilizing a dynamic civil-military innovation workforce in partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and public safety communities.
CMI2 builds close relationships with military units and service members to understand requirements, the cornerstone of our work. So, CMI2 team members are embedded with Soldiers and warfighters at installations nationwide.
Embedded with Soldiers nationally
Experience Matters
Half of the CMI2 overall workforce is current or former military, giving CMI2 a competitive edge in designing real solutions with the needs of service members in mind from the start. Our veteran employees are a diverse group of subject matter experts with backgrounds in special operations, infantry, armor, field artillery, electronic warfare, and cybersecurity.
Entrepreneurs and innovators from the commercial industry make up the rest of our workforce.
Since 2014, CMI2 has personnel embedded with service members at the tactical and strategic level to design solutions that better equip, train, and prepare them to win our nation’s battles.