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every year anyone Brandon Tseng 5Qasar Younis 4Layla Sturdy 4Erin Price-Wright 4Doug Beck 4Brian Schimpf 3Kathleen Hicks 2Justin Fanelli 2Ash Carter 2Alex Miller 2
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Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
- ▶ 0:10 unnamed speaker So a lot of people in this audience are familiar with DIU and, and how it works, but maybe to kick us off, can you talk a little bit about your organization's mission and where it fits broader, more broadly into the defense modernization… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:53 unnamed speaker Um, and maybe then quickly, uh, Kazar, as a starting point, would love to your experience working with, uh, DIU. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:03 unnamed speaker So maybe just to get a little bit more specific, maybe we can chat about Episci applied in DIU. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:11 unnamed speaker Um, you know, DIU is responsible for bridging the gap between technology and DOD buyers. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:33 Qasar Younis And, uh, DIU is a great first step, but really you need that, that, uh, expertise in the services directly, and you need those people to be quite senior.
- ▶ 17:05 unnamed speaker Um, both DIU and applied to some degree are engaged in the Indopaycom region. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:55 unnamed speaker As we wrap, what advice do you both have, uh, for them about working with, with DIU? 3 times in the scene
The Dual-Use Founder: Vets Now Building For America
Autonomy is no longer a moonshot—it’s a market
- ▶ 15:12 Qasar Younis Um, uh, and so then, as we kind of got into the defense ecosystem, we realized, oh, there's like, there's directed DOD, there's DIU, there's this whole, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:29 Jason Brown Yeah, and, and, you know, DIU, we were talking about DIU, I mean, the whole point of DIU originally was to build that bridge,
- ▶ 26:20 Erin Price-Wright It's been going on for several years with DAU, et cetera, but it's definitely accelerated in recent months. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:56 Qasar Younis So, like, if you know people at the DIU and you come from DC, then
Can the Military Move at Startup Speed? How the Army and Navy Are Rebuilding
- ▶ 3:59 Layla Sturdy There are great organizations like DIU and AFWERX that are out there looking to help pave these paths. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:19 Layla Sturdy You know, you get some R&D dollars, you work with DIU, you get an OTA, but ultimately startups want to get to a program of record. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:56 Justin Fanelli Pull in DIU, pull in The Hill, pull in the requirements writers to make sure that you're not doing all the translation yourself.
- ▶ 15:56 Justin Fanelli And so Defense Innovation Unit is actually, uh, has a digital on-ramp where they're trying to streamline that so that we can make buys based on impact.
- ▶ 28:08 Alex Miller So, so the, the CDAO and DIU and some of these other organizations have said, hey, we're going to pull capabilities up and deliver it in a common way for everyone. 2 times in the scene
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 1:01:17 Marc Andreessen There's this whole program called DIU, Defense Innovation Unit, where, you know, very, very sharp people have been, have been working on that.
From Silicon Valley to the Pentagon: The Future of Defense Innovation
- ▶ 1:26 unnamed speaker In fact, these changing conditions were some of the inputs that resulted in the DIU, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:00 unnamed speaker So Doug, DIU was founded as DIUX in 2015. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:03 Brandon Tseng But by working with organizations like DIU with some of the forward-leaning organizations in SOCOM who are willing to, you know, take a risk, take a chance, um, with these smaller 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:48 unnamed speaker Where do you see DIU shepherding, you know, companies to say, these are the types of technologies we expect startups to build?
- ▶ 14:10 Brian Schimpf There's every reason in the world that a Lockheed could show up with, you know, um, counter drone systems or, you know, kind of autonomous, uh, technologies that DIU is really looking at and be able to be very successful. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:35 Doug Beck And so, you know, DIU does about 15% of its work with, uh, with primes and works with startups and works with everybody in between.
- ▶ 21:15 Doug Beck So replicator is a critical example of, uh, of how, uh, DIU three dot O is being put into practice and, and more importantly of the broader, uh, uh, initiative across the department that the secretary and the deputy are leading for how we, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:46 Doug Beck It's connected to a more fundamental shift, and where I think we need to change the metric, whereas the metric under DIU one dot O in that era that you asked me right at the beginning, um, was how many meetings can we have, and who will…
- ▶ 42:17 unnamed speaker Next year will be the 10th anniversary of DIU.
Collaborative Disruption at DoD
- ▶ 12:25 Kathleen Hicks We elevated the defense innovation unit to report directly to the secretary so it can help focus and accelerate how we leverage the best of commercially derived tech. 2 times in the scene
Intro to American Dynamism
- ▶ 5:29 Katherine Boyle We always look at, at former, ah, Secretary of Defense, the late former Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, who started DIU, as someone who really pioneered this movement of wanting to work with Silicon Valley, of wanting to bring the best…
AI & The Future of Modern Warfare
a16z Podcast | Autonomy in Service
- ▶ 27:20 Ryan Tseng Yeah, I think there's recognition that this is a new paradigm, and so I think that's why you've seen DAUX is probably the most predominant example of the DOD attempting to respond to the new dynamic.
a16z Podcast | Of Presidents, Policies, and Tech
- ▶ 33:13 Matthew Colford The Defense Department has DIUX.
a16z Podcast | Government, Startups, & Innovation -- with U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter
- ▶ 5:52 Ash Carter That's why I'm working on creating an innovation unit out here. 2 times in the scene