Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)

Last week, DIU Deputy Director, Strategy, Policy & National Security Partnerships, Aditi Kumar, sat down with Foreign Policy which recently hosted at the Security Forum for a discussion focused on ‘Strengthening Alliances Amid Evolving Threats’ with NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) Managing Partner, Andrea Traversone, Co-founder & President of Shield AI, Brandon Tseng. During the Capital Factory launch of STATION DC, in partnership with the City of Washington, DC, creating a tech hub designed to foster collaboration between innovators and policymakers in the heart of the nation’s capital, Kumar also participated in a NATO to the Future fireside chat to discuss accelerating innovation to strengthen the Alliance.

Expeditionary Hydrogen On Ship & Shore (EHOSS) solicitation just posted! The U.S. Military’s ability to operate effectively in austere environments is directly tied to its logistical capabilities. The use of hydrogen (H2) as an alternate fuel source could partly mitigate these challenges. The DoD seeks to prototype an integrated electrolysis-based H2 production, storage and distribution system capable of producing and dispensing a minimum of 20kg H2 in a 24 hour period at an efficiency using 100kW or less power. For details on the potential solution please visit: https://lnkd.in/dckjHGVy Solutions requested by 7/25/2024 #hydrogen #energy

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We are proud to announce the publication of a new article by DIU’s Immersive Commercial Acquisition Program (ICAP) Fellows in a special extended Innovation edition of the National Contract Management Association (NCMA) Magazine. Free copies of the magazine are available through the end of July. In this article, titled "Building Innovations: DIU’s ICAP Fellows share lessons in leveraging flexible acquisition tools to accelerate commercial technology across DoD," the FY24 ICAP fellows cohort share their insights on DIU's Commercial Solutions Opening (CSO), and lessons learned around the use of the Other Transaction (OT) authority. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/ea4FEhQK If you would like to become an ICAP fellow too, then apply at www.diu.mil/icap by August 7! Lastly, if you're attending the 2024 NCMA World Congress in Seattle this July, DIU's Phillip Lee and Joshua Tuxhorn will be speaking on the panel "Masterclass: DIU and Industry Insights for CSO Best Practices" on Tuesday, July 23rd, from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm PT. We hope to see you there! #DefenseInnovation #AcquisitionExcellence #Commercial #Technology

It was great to participate in the JPMorganChase #VetVC Summit this past week! We spoke to veterans who are founders and funders about the importance of #nationalsecurity and how the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is working to scale critical capabilities across the United States Department of Defense, providing our warfighters with the technologies they need and helping strengthen the national security innovation base. Follow DIU to learn about what's next at the intersection of national security and commercial technology. Liz Young McNally Jack Ryan

Autonomous Collaborative Teaming (ACT) solicitation just posted! The DoD lacks the ability to coordinate hundreds or thousands of unmanned assets in a shared environment, particularly when navigation and communications are disrupted or denied. The need for autonomous vehicles to execute complex tasks at machine speed requires collaborative autonomy at the edge that is designed to function in the degraded conditions of peer conflict. The United States Department of Defense seeks the ability to coordinate hundreds or thousands of unmanned assets in a shared environment, particularly when navigation and communications are disrupted or denied. The government desires an experienced integrator with mature collaborative autonomy solutions to adapt and re-design government furnished collaborative autonomy architectures for integration across a wide array of vehicles in every domain. Details on common command user interface solutions and details to be addressed here: https://lnkd.in/eW3vKcfH Solicitations requested by 7/19/2024. #autonomy #software #c2

Opportunistic, Resilient & Innovative Expeditionary Network Topology Solicitation posted! United States Department of Defense needs to ensure that connectivity across a heterogeneous swarm of attritable multi-domain autonomous platforms remains intact. Communications equipment shall be capable of reliable operations in a contested spectrum along with ability to operate at lower classification levels in conjunction with attrition resilience concurrent with the vehicles that they are on. DoD needs the ability to push one-way updated commands via a broadcast through the line-of-site and beyond line of siteradio frequency and data networks. Communications across the network must be secure, applying best industry practices of commercial grade transmission and communications security. DoD requires a network control channel and management tool to direct and/or redirect the UxV team in both real-time and non-real-time disconnected operations. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) requests solutions by 7/19/2024. Details found here: https://lnkd.in/eXJexNCh #software #cybersecurity #autonomy

After an 18-month prototyping period, the United States Department of Defense and Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) announced two successful solutions in the High-Performance Compute Modernization Program (HPCMP). Rescale and Parallel Works demonstrated the ability to expand the scale and range of computing resources available within the DoD by integrating cloud-based HPC assets into the HPCMP’s existing Supercomputing Resource Centers. The DoD currently relies on a variety of on-premise computers to run compute-intensive workloads, such as deep neural networks, physics models, and engineering simulations. And although this approach has been effective so far, reliance on physical computers demands substantial investment in sourcing, purchasing, installing, and maintaining new hardware. Both vendors will be entering production contracts later this year. Read more below.

It has been an honor today to host the House Appropriations Committee-Defense Chairman Ken Calvert, Congressman Steve Womack and Congressman Chuck Fleischmann for a field proceeding on military capabilities and next-generation innovation here at Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) headquarters in Mountain View The event, which will features the Vice Chiefs of the US Army US Navy United States Air Force United States Marine Corps United States Space Force, will highlight valuable perspectives on defense innovation initiatives and strategic investments crucial to national security and specifically on technologies expected in the field by 2027. Watch live (or recorded) here: https://lnkd.in/e-zf5kvG #agile #technology #dualuse NSIN - National Security Innovation Network National Security Innovation Capital