The international platform supporting mission-driven entrepreneurs
OUR PROGRAMS
Hacking for Defense
Hacking for Diplomacy
Hacking for Homeland Security
OUR IMPACT
PROGRAM EXPANSION
75
Participating Universities in the US, UK, & AU
3300
Undergraduate & Graduate Students Served
850
Programs Validated
143
Trained Program Professors
GRANT FUNDING
$850K
Awarded to mission-driven entrepreneurs, student teams, universities, and research centers, aiding in national security, climate, sustainability, and resiliency.
LEARN ABOUT US
Our Common Mission Is:
To create an international network of entrepreneurs driven to solve the critical challenges of our time—from national security to natural disasters, from energy to the environment.
Solving these problems is our generational calling.
WE NOW FACE
Critical Challenges
These challenges have common elements:
Cut across Government, Private, and Nonprofit Sectors
Are constantly evolving
Need immediate, implementable solutions
No one is isolated from the effects of the challenges we face today. We all have a role in the mission-driven entrepreneurship movement.
WE ACCELERATE PROBLEM-SOLVING BY
Connecting Three Key Audiences
Problem Sponsors
Government agencies, businesses, and NGOs have urgent and emerging problems that resist easy resolution.
University Students
University students are unburdened from the way we have always done things. They have a long-term stake in solving the critical challenges we now face.
Private Sector
Entrepreneurs bring innovative solutions to life. They work to succeed more than they fear failure.
Uniting university students and the private sector with like-minded problem-solvers in government and academia in order to solve critical challenges is mission-driven entrepreneurship.
UNIVERSITY PARTNERS
Meet the People Behind
The Common Mission Project
The Common Mission Project (CMP) is the 501c3 non-profit partner of the innovation company, BMNT Inc.
TAKE A DEEPER DIVE
PROGRAM SPOTLIGHT
Hacking for Defense®
Hacking for Defense (H4D™) is an undergraduate and graduate-level university course taught at more than fifty universities across the United States.
H4D offers the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community the opportunity to collaborate with talented student teams to develop innovative solutions to the nation’s emerging threats.
H4D enables innovative solutions to national security problems by leveraging Silicon Valley innovation methods such as The Lean LaunchPad.
Student Success Stories
Learn more about the discoveries, innovations and companies that emerge from each semester of Hacking for Defense on our Student Success Stories page.