And they’re using things like the Office of Strategic Capital and the Defense Innovation Unit to embrace startups. They were doing this before incoming President Trump was reelected, and those efforts, I think, we’re going to see accelerate. And I’ll end by stressing the fact that the...
Both the House and Senate Appropriations committees received a letter from the Silicon Valley Defense Group today urging them to keep the House-approved provision providing the Defense Innovation Unit $1 billion to establish a hedge portfolio in the fiscal year 2024 Defense Appropriations Act. The ...
Now, 65 years later, there are three things that give me hope about our path forward. One, the DoD’s DIU [Defense Innovation Unit) and their significant increase in funding, pending approval, gives me hope. They’ve been able to leverage OTAs [Other Transaction Authorities]. And you kn...
The Air Force can't afford to go big on either modernization or readiness at current funding levels, creating a stalemate in which both are already being suboptimized, said Ravi Chaudhary, the now former Air Force assistant secretary for energy, installations and environment. Featured Document OMB...
/PRNewswire/ -- Google Cloud today announced that the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has chosen Google Cloud to prototype an AI-enabled digital pathology...
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has named David Henry as its new deputy chief information officer, Henry announced on LinkedIn.[…] Defense & Intelligence Jan 10, 2025 | 2:36 pm INSA Urges New Admin to Prioritize IC Workforce, Cybersecurity, AI ...
“Any type of adversarial activity in the INDOPACOM [area of responsibility] is probably going to occur on a timeline where we won't be able to generate solutions organically and the department,” said Mike Madsen, the acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit. “We need to have...
The AI RCC, which will be overseen by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office and partner with the Defense Innovation Unit, will come into force as the Pentagon aims to dramatically increase its capabilities to counter Chinese mass in the event of a conflict with its main adversary...
but small firms often can’t keep the doors open long enough without external funding while waiting for the department’s contracting processes to progress. While groups such as the Defense Innovation Unit — the Pentagon’s technology hub — are helping speed...
"The government's becoming a better customer," said Shah, who previously served as managing partner of the Defense Department's Defense Innovation Unit, which seeks to accelerate the use of emerging technologies. "It actually makes business sense to solve important security problems." ...