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news | 20 May 2019
Hacking Acquisitions

Airman Magazine

news | 4 May 2019
Meet the Big-Thinking Space Startups That Want to Transform the Universe with Tiny Satellites

Fast Company

news | 2 May 2019
The US Army is Still Looking for its Perfect Quadcopter Drone

Popular Science

news | 29 Apr 2019
DIU is Helping the Army Put More Backpack-Sized Drones in the Battlefield

Nextgov

news | 3 Apr 2019
Rocket Lab to Launch Air Force Satellites

SpaceNews

news | 21 Mar 2019
More than Music & Movies: the SXSW Defense Track
news | 13 Mar 2019
Startups Highlight Ease and Benefits of Working with DoD
news | 24 Jan 2019
Defense Innovation Unit Seeks Latest Commercial Technology at CES 2019
news | 22 Nov 2018
Why the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Need to Get on the Same Page

Foreign Policy

news | 5 Nov 2018
Changing the Story: Agile Software Development and Acquisition for the Air Force

Airman Magazine

news | 1 Nov 2018
How Computer Vision Can Help Agencies Spot Critical Needs

FedTech

news | 15 Aug 2018
How the Pentagon Joins Forces with Silicon Valley Startups

PBS NewsHour

news | 5 July 2018
The U.S. Air Force Learned to Code - and Saved the Pentagon Millions

Fast Company

news | 2 July 2018
Army Leverages Machine Learning to Predict Component Failure

Defense Systems

news | 26 Feb 2018
DIUx releases a giant overhead imagery data set for computer vision challenge

FedScoop

news | 21 Feb 2018
The Pentagon Wants Your Help Analyzing Satellite Images

Wired

news | 30 Nov 2017
Refueling Over Afghanistan? There's an App for That

Aviation Week

news | 11 Aug 2017
Defense Secretary James Mattis Envies Silicon Valley's AI Ascent

Wired

news | 10 Aug 2017
Defense Secretary Mattis Sees Growth for Silicon Valley Defense Unit

Reuters

news | 9 Aug 2017
Pentagon's Silicon Valley Unit Helps Target Terrorists

Bloomberg

news | 2 Aug 2017
The U.S. is Funding Silicon Valley's Space Industry to Spot North Korean Missiles Before They Fly

Quartz

news | 19 July 2017
The Pentagon Has Tried to Get Silicon Valley on Its Side for Years. Now It's Part of the Air War Against ISIS.

The Washington Post

news | 3 Apr 2017
How Veterans Turned Entrepreneurs Are Disrupting the Pentagon's Weapons Program

Fast Company

news | 19 Dec 2016
The Pentagon's Innovation Experiment

MIT Technology Review

event | 30 Nov 2016
Executing on Acquisition Innovation

Center for a New American Security

news | 6 July 2016
Tiny Satellites from Silicon Valley May Help Track North Korea Missiles

The New York Times

news | 11 May 2016
The "X" is for Experimental

Medium