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news | 27 July 2021
Anduril Nabs DIU ‘Service’ Contract For Counter-Drone AI

Breaking Defense

news | 22 July 2021
U.S. Government and Nonprofit Organization Host Prize Competition to Leverage the Latest Technology to Detect and Defeat Illegal Fishing
news | 1 July 2021
Defense Innovation Unit’s Secure Cloud Management Prototypes Completed With Success Memos
news | 29 June 2021
The U.S.-China Race for AI Predominance, and the Future of AI Military Innovation - With Michael Brown of the U.S. DIU
news | 29 June 2021
App Aims to Match Reserve, Guard Talent With DOD Needs

Department of Defense

news | 25 June 2021
DIU Rethinking Cyber Endpoint Protections Through Advanced Deception Tools

Federal News Network

news | 25 May 2021
CesiumAstro Unveils Plan To Test Active Phased Array in Orbit

SpaceNews

news | 19 May 2021
Ball Aerospace and Microsoft Demonstrate Satellite-to-Cloud Data Processing

Via Satellite

news | 17 May 2021
Defense Innovation Unit selects ABL Space to launch DoD mission

SpaceNews

news | 16 May 2021
Silicon Valley reboots Its relationship With the US military

Financial Times

news | 14 May 2021
DIU is Making an Uber-like App for Talent Management in DOD

FedScoop

news | 4 May 2021
DOD Fortifying Cloud Connections To Work Better, Faster With Companies

C4ISRNET

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news | 22 Apr 2021
AI Leaders: DOD Must Be More Transparent With Startups

C4ISRNET

news | 21 Apr 2021
Why the Military Is Leading the Charge on 5G

Wall Street Journal

video | 19 Apr 2021
DIU Makes it Easy for Commercial Companies to Work with DoD
news | 21 Mar 2021
Interesting Ideas Exist To Shorten "DOD-Created Valley of Death" and Fuel Innovation, Says DIU Director

Government Matters

news | 16 Mar 2021
Politico Pro Q&A: Michael Brown, Director of the Defense Innovation Unit

Politico

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The Next 5 Years of Defense Innovation with Eric Schmidt, Michael Brown, and Dr. Amy Zegart
news | 15 Mar 2021
Relativity Space Wins U.S. Military Contract for 2023 Launch

SpaceNews

news | 4 Mar 2021
Advice for DIU at Five: Don’t Just Grow, LEAD

Breaking Defense

news | 26 Feb 2021
Smarter Software Could Help Air Force Cut Fuel Bills by a Million Gallons Per Week

Federal News Network

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
Air Force Buys Streaming Data Warehouse for Pathfinder, JADC2 Concepts

Wall Street Journal

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

Defense News

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 #9 - Smashing (Data) Silos
video | 18 Dec 2020
From Tanks to Teleportation #8 - The Innovation Policy Perspective
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
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
Navy EOD Lays Out Strategic Plan for Modernizing Domain Awareness, Force Protection Against Peer Threat

USNI News

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

Department of Defense