The Defense Department released a directive explaining how it's going to handle having East and West coast DIUx sites.
The Navy said it wants to look outside the box for new solutions to its challenges with cybersecurity and embedded platform systems. Navy Deputy CIO Janice Haith said the service will launch a contest later this month to solicit ideas from its own workforce on getting rid of or modernizing outdated, tactical systems.
Silicon Valley companies once kept their distance from stodgy Washington, with its perceived urge to tax, regulate, coddle unions and dole out favors. Now they cozy up to government.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is revamping the Defense Innovation Unit Experiment before it even turns a year old.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Stephen Welby told Federal News Radio in an exclusive interview how DoD is allaying commercial industry's acquisition fears.
The Pentagon says its contribution for a new manufacturing institute dedicated to flexible electronics will be matched by $96 million in corporate and institutional funding. Officials say it could lead to a significant lightening of a soldier's loads and real-time damage reports from individual bulkheads aboard Navy ships.