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news | 26 Feb 2021
Away From Silicon Valley, the Military is the Ideal Customer

The New York Times

news | 25 Feb 2021
DIU Sees Another Year of Growth in Spending, Tech Transition

FedScoop

news | 24 Feb 2021
DOD Innovation Arm Delivers Much-Needed Secure Drones to the Federal Government

C4ISRNET

news | 16 Feb 2021
U.S. Government To Stop Buying Chinese-Made Drones

Voice of America

news | 16 Feb 2021
Rapid Response: Public-Private Opportunities, With Defense Innovation Unit's Mike Brown

Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

news | 15 Feb 2021
FEATURE-3D-Printed Homes Build Hope for U.S. Affordable Housing

Reuters

news | 9 Feb 2021
Skydio Poised To Supply First Tranche of Short-Range Recon Drones to U.S. Army

Defense News

news | 9 Feb 2021
Air Force Buys Streaming Data Warehouse for Pathfinder, JADC2 Concepts

Wall Street Journal

news | 4 Feb 2021
DoD's Innovative Acquisition Tactics for Medical Tech (Podcast)

GovernmentCIO Media & Research

news | 3 Feb 2021
DIU Boosts Cyber Workforce With Acquisition Accelerator

GovernmentCIO Media & Research

news | 28 Jan 2021
DIU Scaling Up Commercial Cyber Threat Deception Platform

Wall Street Journal

news | 11 Jan 2021
Defense Innovation Unit Chief on Keeping the Office Relevant

Defense News

video | 18 Dec 2020
From Tanks to Teleportation #7 - Blowing Stuff up for Defense Innovation
video | 18 Dec 2020
From Tanks to Teleportation #6 - Executives by Day, Superheroes by Night
video | 18 Dec 2020
From Tanks to Teleportation #9 - Smashing (Data) Silos
video | 18 Dec 2020
From Tanks to Teleportation #8 - The Innovation Policy Perspective
news | 17 Dec 2020
CISA, DIU Partner on Acquiring Commercial Technologies

FedScoop

news | 17 Dec 2020
DOD, DHS Collaborating on Innovative Cybersecurity Solutions

Department of Defense

news | 9 Dec 2020
The Future of Flight Training is a Gamer Headset That Watches You Play

Defense One

news | 8 Dec 2020
Ultra-Low Cost Simulation Program Augments Pilot Training

Department of Defense

video | 4 Dec 2020
The DIU-ex Podcast: Sean Singleton // Doing Deals that Matter
news | 18 Nov 2020
Admiral: Submarine-Launched UAS Proving 'Awesome Capability'

Seapower

video | 9 Nov 2020
The DIU-ex Podcast: Bernadette Johnson // The Role of Science in Defense Innovation
news | 30 Oct 2020
Defense Innovation Unit Out To Prove AI, Automation Can Keep Up With the Speed of Cyber

Federal News Network

news | 23 Oct 2020
Pentagon's Silicon Valley Hub Is Helping NORAD Monitor U.S. Airspace

Air Force Magazine

news | 23 Oct 2020
Army Financial Management Office Partners With DOD for AI Solutions

Department of Defense

news | 23 Oct 2020
Navy EOD Lays Out Strategic Plan for Modernizing Domain Awareness, Force Protection Against Peer Threat

USNI News

video | 19 Oct 2020
The DIU-ex Podcast: Isaac Taylor // Faster, Better, Cheaper (Pick 3)
video | 13 Oct 2020
The DIU-ex Podcast: Vishaal "V8" Hariprasad // Upgrading the DoD
news | 9 Oct 2020
Politico Pro Q&A: Brig. Gen. Steven Butow, DIU Space Portfolio Director

Politico

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Work and Scale within the $100B Defense Market
news | 7 Oct 2020
Pentagon Funds Autonomous Sea Barge for Rotocraft To Land, Refuel and Rearm

FlightGlobal

news | 29 Sept 2020
SECDEF Tours Navy EOD to Assess Unmanned Capabilities

Seapower

news | 24 Sept 2020
How the Space Economy Can Catch Up With Hog Bellies and Soy Beans

Quartz

event
The Next 5 Years of Defense Innovation with VCJCS, Gen John Hyten
video | 8 Sept 2020
The DIU-ex Podcast: Ryan Kappedal // Transforming DoD with AI
news | 2 Sept 2020
United States Air Force RSO Selects C3.ai as Strategic AI Platform

StreetInsider

news | 1 Sept 2020
Navy Places Order for Additional VideoRay ROVs for Explosive Ordnance Disposal

Seapower

news | 1 Sept 2020
Microscopes Powered by Google’s AI Could Change Cancer Diagnostics

Defense One

news | 27 Aug 2020
DIU Making Transformative Impact Five Years In

Department of Defense

news | 24 Aug 2020
Defense Innovation Unit Teaching Artificial Intelligence To Detect Cancer

Department of Defense

news | 20 Aug 2020
The U.S Government Grounded DJI - but Here Are the 5 it Just Approved

The Verge

news | 20 Aug 2020
The Pentagon Can Now Buy U.S.-Made Small Drones From These 5 Companies

C4ISRNET

news | 20 Aug 2020
Pentagon Approves Five Drone Makers for Military Sales

Wall Street Journal

video | 19 Aug 2020
From Tanks to Teleportation #5 - Investing in Projects with the Department of Defense
video | 11 Aug 2020
From Tanks to Teleportation #4 - Perspectives From the Department of Defense
video | 7 Aug 2020
The DIU-ex Podcast: Allison Lazarus & Richard Kuzma // The Cambridge Project
news | 7 Aug 2020
The Pentagon Is Failing To Scale Emerging Technology, Senior Leaders Say

FedScoop