Abstract:Innovative talents in national defense science and technology are crucial resources for developing national strategic scientific and technological power, but domestic research on such talents is insufficient, and there is also a lack of research on the successful mode of cultivating such talents abroad. The program "Hacking for Defense" (H4D) of the United States provides a new mode for cultivating innovative talents in national defense science and technology, therefore, on the basis of sorting out the background and development status of the program, this paper clarifies its talent cultivation framework and process, and summarizes and condenses the US innovative talent cultivation model in national defense science and technology. It can be seen from the study that the core objective of H4D program is to cultivate innovative talents in national defense science and technology based on the support of problem-oriented characteristic national defense innovation culture, and the operation mechanism covers the meso level of multi-departmental synergy and the micro level of team innovation, which follows the logic of openness and fusion, and is carried out through the process of "team formation- problem clarification- problem solving- program evaluation". The framework of cultivating innovative talents in national defense science and technology, which is composed of core objectives, operation mechanism and innovation culture, is triply coupled with the meso and micro two-layer operation mechanism and the two major logics to promote the efficient operation of the H4D program and achieve the goal of cultivating innovative talents in national defense science and technology. The enlightenment gained from the US experience for China's defense science and technology work includes: improving the organized scientific research system, perfecting the dynamic mechanism of demand traction and benefit distribution coordination, and unclogging the two-way military-civilian interaction channels.