Defense Innovation Inflection Point?

Published on June 3, 2024

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Almost a decade ago, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter came to Stanford University in 2015 to announce a bridge between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon, a new organization he termed the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental or DIUx. Secretary Carter realized earlier than many of the technologies the military needed would come from commercial companies at the forefront of AI, autonomy, cyber and commercial space—not from government labs or defense primes.

Link to the article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikebrown/2024/05/25/defense-innovation-inflection-point/?sh=7bf272963769

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