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The Pentagon is already crowdsourcing weapons design. Now it s going to use it to help develop U.S. national security strategy.DARPABy Mark ThompsonAugust 15, 2014 10:51 AM EDTThink the Pentagon was ill-prepared and stumbled after it invaded Iraq and Afghanistan Think you could have drafted a better war plan Well, the U.S. Department of Defense may agree with you. Thatrsquo why it said late Thursday that itrsquo seeking a ldqu nike dunk o;crowd-sourcing entity, mostly likely a contractor, to chart the types of future challenges to national security for which the President of the United States would expect U.S. armed forces to have the ability to address.The Pentagon wants the winning bidder to brainstorm online with a large and diverse group of people collaborating in real time to improve how the nation prepares for, and fights, its wars.Crowdsourcing is the 21st Centuryrsquo version of putting our heads together, via the Internet, to tackle a problem and come up with the best solution. Instead of a handful of expertsmdash;war-planners, for examplemdash;it relies on a constellation of thousands or more individuals, often unpaid, who funnel their ideas into a central clearinghouse, where the optimum ones supposedly float to the surface.The military is already using crowdsourcing on a more limited scale, to design a next-generation combat vehicle and co skechers nsidering i af1 ts potential to help track nuclear proliferation.But this latest proposal could