Liz Young McNally is Deputy Director of Commercial Operations at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). She explains a major Department of Defense policy shift prioritizing commercial software procurement methods across the military.
“Secretary Hegseth just, ah, you know, in the last few weeks authored a memo saying that we're going to use that approach for all software acquisition.”
quote is from the automated transcript, cleaned for reading:
filler sounds and stutters are removed, nothing is rephrased. names can be misheard
(the analysis reads context, assessments check outside sources). how →
More from Liz Young McNally
AssertionPartly supported
McNally: 40% of DIU Contract Winners Are First-Time DoD Vendors
“40% of the companies that, that win our solutions every year are first time to DoD, right?”
McNally: DoD operates on two-year cycles while technology moves in days
“The department works on two-year cycles, right? Technology works on the cycles of days, weeks, you know, maybe months, but probably more, more days and weeks, and how do we bridge that gap?”
This entire site, over 1,000 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable,
runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the
moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.
We use essential cookies to make the site work. With your permission we
also use analytics cookies (Google Analytics and Mixpanel) to understand
usage and improve StarZero. See our Cookie Policy.
