The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), also referred to as Unit X, is a Department of Defense (DoD) organization that aims to accelerate the U.S. military's adoption of commercial technology. DIU partners with commercial companies to rapidly prototype and field dual-use capabilities, addressing national security challenges across areas like AI, autonomy, cyber, and space. Key activities include scouting cutting-edge technologies, streamlining contracting, and fostering collaboration between the DoD and the commercial technology sector.
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Steve Butow, director of the Defense Innovation Unit’s space portfolio, stated that the hybrid space architecture will support the Joint All-Domain Command and Control effort.
Atlas Space Operations announced its Defense Innovation Unit award in the previous month.
The Defense Innovation Unit aims to ensure the hybrid architecture does not introduce vulnerabilities through increased access points.
The Defense Innovation Unit awarded contracts to Anduril, Aalyria Technologies, Atlas Space Operations, and Enveil for a project to demonstrate a hybrid architecture for satellite data sharing.
Atlas Space Operations received a Defense Innovation Unit contract on 2022-06-08 to demonstrate a hybrid network linking Department of Defense, civil government, and commercial satellites.
ATLAS Space Operations received the Hybrid Space Architecture (HSA) contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to demonstrate a federated network.
The Defense Innovation Unit selected Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. and Avalanche Energy on 2022-05-17 to develop small nuclear-powered spacecraft for in-space demonstrations planned for 2027.
The Defense Innovation Unit is a Department of Defense organization created to bring commercial technologies into military programs and is soliciting bids for satellite refueling solutions.
A Defense Innovation Unit solicitation seeking commercial responsive in-space refueling solutions closes 2022-04-18.
The Defense Innovation Unit was established in 2015 by then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter in Silicon Valley.
senseFly, an AgEagle subsidiary, is one of the first eleven vendors to be designated a Blue UAS under the Defense Innovation Unit’s Blue sUAS 2.0.
The eBee TAC Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) has been approved by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) for procurement by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
National Security Innovation Capital, a hardware development accelerator within the Defense Innovation Unit, awarded Xplore a $2,000,000 contract to accelerate development of Xcraft.
Lyten won a contract from DIU in spring 2020 under an "other transactions" agreement in which the government and the contractor co-invest in the project.
Maxar Technologies won a $9,300,000 Department of Defense contract to produce two in-space servicing robotic arms for the Defense Innovation Unit.
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. announced that its subsidiary, senseFly, has been named to the Blue sUAS 2.0 list by the US Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU).
The Blue sUAS 2.0 project follows the successful partnership between the U.S. Army and DIU on the Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program that started in 2019.
The Defense Innovation Unit made eight awards totaling approximately $14,000,000 through the Defense Production Act, Title III Program to support the small unmanned aerial systems industrial base.
The Defense Innovation Unit seeks to geolocate GPS interference using growing availability of space-based and terrestrial data sources.
CesiumAstro collaborated with the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the Mission Manifest Office (MMO) in connection with Cesium Mission 1.