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The three DIU-funded projects were awarded to Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman, and Spacebilt.
The Defense Innovation Unit was established in 2015 to act as a bridge between the Department of Defense and the commercial technology sector.
The Defense Innovation Unit is helping the Space Force establish a process to work with industry and forge agreements with companies for responsive missions.
The Defense Innovation Unit is working with the Space Force’s Space Safari office to identify and select commercial providers for a responsive mission named Victus Haze.
COMSO is working with the Defense Innovation Unit and PEOs to use STRATFI funding to take companies to the next level.
The Defense Innovation Unit partnered with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Weather Systems Branch to develop ground, air, and space-based prototypes for global weather sensing.
Muon Space was one of five companies selected by the Defense Innovation Unit in October 2022 to demonstrate new approaches to addressing Space-based Environmental Monitoring gaps.
Since emerging from stealth, Aalyria has received awards from and developed partnerships with the Defense Innovation Unit, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Comtech, the European Space Agency, Telesat, Intelsat, Airbus, and Rivada Space.
Aalyria is working under an $8,700,000 contract from the Defense Innovation Unit to implement its Spacetime software in support of a hybrid space architecture.
The Defense Innovation Unit started the hybrid network project in 2022 to help provide global communications regardless of terrestrial infrastructure limitations or disruptions.
The Defense Innovation Unit's status was elevated in 2024 to help the Pentagon gain more rapid access to commercial companies with promising technologies.
The 2023-12-07 demonstration at the Naval Research Laboratory was funded by the Defense Innovation Unit as part of a larger effort to create a multi-layered satellite architecture of different vendors and orbits.
L3Harris conducted its first demonstration of an electronic phased array ground antenna in 2021 under a Defense Innovation Unit contract focused on improving satellite communications for the U.S. Space Force.
Northrop Grumman is collaborating with the Space Systems Command (SSC), the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), and other customers to develop in-space refueling technologies for U.S. space-based assets.
Northrop Grumman is collaborating with the Space Systems Command (SSC), the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), and other customers to develop in-space refueling technologies for U.S. space-based assets.
Northrop Grumman is collaborating with Space Systems Command, Defense Innovation Unit, and other customers to develop in-space refueling technologies for U.S. space-based assets.
Muon Space received additional funding as an option to its contract with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Weather Systems Branch and the Defense Innovation Unit to collect ionospheric data on the MuSat-2 satellite mission.
Orbit Fab received a $13,300,000 contract from the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit to partly fund its hydrazine fueling station.
In 2022, Muon Space received a $2,800,000 contract from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Weather Systems Branch and the Defense Innovation Unit to deliver terrestrial weather products to the Air Force 557th Weather Wing.
Red Cat Holdings, Inc. has announced that its subsidiary, Teal Drones, has been selected by the Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Army as one of two finalists in the Short Range Reconnaissance Tranche 2 Program of Record.