At Project Mercury, the product is not a project or a widget. They produce teams of people who can collaborate and innovate—so that the United States and its allies can out-think, out-partner, and out-compete potential adversaries. Formed in 2019, Project Mercury is an innovation education partnership between Air University, headquartered at Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base (AFB) in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Innovatrium of Ann Arbor, Michigan.