NEWS & EVENTS

The new satellite initiative builds on technology created more for Wall Street than the Pentagon. From an office in an old Defense Department building within view of the Google campus in California, DIUx is already investing in companies that exploit tiny civilian radar satellites, able to pierce darkness or storms, in hopes that the Pentagon can use them by the end of the year, or early in 2018. Read More

Shield AI, which wants to reduce American and civilian casualties in ground combat to zero, just raised $10.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz. Read More

DIUx is working to make doing business with DoD fast, flexible, and collaborative. This panel will host those who have served on the front-lines as well as tech industry insiders to discuss the DIUx model and how startups can meaningfully contribute to our national defense. Read More

Raj Shah, managing partner at DIUx, speaks with Ben Fitzgerald of CNAS to explain why DoD is focused on partnering with startups, challenges for collaboration, and how DIUx will achieve its mission. Read More

The U.S. Department of Defense founded a kind of startup in Silicon Valley to accelerate the development and acquisition of new technologies useful to the military. Read More