The Pentagon should run an internal "eBay-style" market for command, control, communications and collaboration — intel and operational tasks posted, bid on, and priced by cost and performance — to fix the shortfalls in C4 systems flagged by the Defense Science Board, the Office of Force Transformation, and the Command and Control Research Program; the thesis builds a testable model and walks through an intelligence use case with testable hypotheses.

— In our words · Source: Virtual military markets (Angela J. Burth)