Defense Innovation Unit is a Department of Defense organization that integrates commercial technology to address national security challenges. The unit awards contracts to companies that provide scalable solutions, using agile processes to reduce the time from problem identification to implementation. DIU con...
“We are honored that the Defense Innovation Unit has chosen Immervision’s InnovationLab to create this innovative wide angle computer vision camera optimized for drones in low light vision and autonomous flight,” said Alessandro Gasparini, Executive Vice President, Operations and Chief Commercial Off...
The Defense Innovation Unit announced Monday that two new companies were awarded contracts to help with different aspects of the Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) initiative. HyCAT, originally announced in April, was implemented to develop inexpensive, high-cadence hyperso...
On Tuesday, Work and Kendall met with newly appointed leaders from the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, dubbed DIUx, which is the Pentagon's new "point of presence" in Silicon Valley.Tony BertucaInside the Pentagon
Jul 1, 2021 - SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— McAfee Corp. (Nasdaq: MCFE), the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, today announced it has received a success memorandum from the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for its MVISION Unified Cloud Edge (UCE), after a...
The Defense Innovation Unit wants $15 million in fiscal year 2023 to kick-start a new research effort centered on the prototyping and deployment of commercial battery technologies for military purposes. The inclusion brings the outfit’s total research, development, test and evaluation spending ...
The Silicon Valley-headquartered organization that taps into ‘non-traditional’ innovators, the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and its U.S. Air Force and Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering (USD R&E) partners, selected Hypersonix Launch Systems to provide a hypersonic vehicle fo...
On Tuesday, the U.S. Defense Departmentannouncedthe appointment of Apple executive Doug Beck as head of its Defense Innovation Unit, a group that seeks out and certifies commercial sector technologies for use by the armed forces. Beck will report to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, creating a dir...
PARIS, Sept. 2, 2020 — (PRNewswire) —Parrot, the leading European drone group, is pleased to announce its selection in theBlue sUAS programby the U.S. Army and the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). The DIU is a Department of Defense organization that accelerates commercial technology for na...
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) accelerates the adoption of commercial technology throughout the military and growing national security innovation base. DIU partners with organizations across the Department of Defense (DoD) to rapidly prototype, field,...