Commonly called by its acronym, DIU, the Defense Innovation Unit is a gateway into the defense market for cutting edge commercial technologies. It is also a broker of sorts for traditional contractors looking for new and innovative solutions from the commercial world. The work DIU does is crucial for the U.S. military as it works to counter a wide range of threats to our national security from near peer rivals such as Russia and China as well...

As today’s joint force leaders contend with growing threats and rising international instability, modern and accessible command and control technologies have become essential in maintaining a prepared and dominant military posture in contested environments. Though such a technical and operational baseline has long been the goal of DOD officials, the complexities of building and scaling needed services required for success are persistent....

As today’s DOD leaders contend with growing threats and rising international instability, leveraging innovative intelligence gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tools has become essential in maintaining a prepared and dominant military posture. Though a technical and operational baseline has long been the goal of officials, the complexities of implementing cutting-edge technologies and operating systems on previously closed...

Many federal agencies – whether DoD or civilian – are accustomed to remote work environments that challenge data collection, response times and service delivery. Whether at the tactical edge in degraded, low-bandwidth battlefield scenarios or simply working far from mission datacenters in rural environments, remote workers and defense personnel require access to real-time data and analysis to do their jobs best. Advances in edge co...

The Space Development Agency, founded in March 2019, was founded to pursue the new National Defense Space Architecture (NDSA). The NDSA is routed in the same principles as Starlink, focusing on small, cheaper satellites operating in LEO with different sats focused on different missions. The architecture is designed to be cheaper, more survivable and in some ways more capable than existing US military space-based capabilities. Plans call for hu...

Innovation at speed is the new advantage. To meet the challenges of current and emerging global threats, defense agencies and their partners must scale globally to empower warfighters at the edge. Harnessing cloud helps move the best in new technology to even the most remote outposts, so that diverse teams have the intelligence and tools they need for mission success. In this installment of our Future-Ready Federal Series, presented by Accentu...

The U.S. Navy finds itself under unexpected new leadership for the second year in a row after losing an acting secretary and an aircraft carrier commander to the coronavirus outbreak aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt this summer. The new hands must chart a course toward the president's mission of more ships, secure technologies, and shows of force.

The newly-established Space Force is pulling in space-based components from across the Army, Navy, and Air Force and integrating capabilities from those services. To military leaders, that means space is now considered to be a war-fighting domain, as China and Russia move swiftly to contest the U.S. presence above. Learn how Space Force is moving ahead with those plans, and new initiatives in Low Earth Orbit sensing, jamming, and next-generati...

Commandant Gen. David Berger has emerged as a forward-leaning leader who is remaking the Corps for modern missions and for modern society. His effort to scrap outdated weapons and formations is already an example to other service branches. His ban of the Confederate flag, months ahead of the summer's protests, is echoing across the Pentagon.

In recent months, Air Force leaders have embraced the discussion about race and equality within the military and broad society, in part because the service is about to swear in a Black chief of staff and a woman senior enlisted leader, both firsts for the military. As for its arsenal, the U.S. Air Force is returning to its roots as the most technologically advanced branch of the military with ambitious goals to network everything, and quickly...