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McNally: 40% of DIU Contract Winners Are First-Time DoD Vendors

Liz Young McNally · Modernizing Warfare and Beyond · May 6, 2025 · at 8:19

Liz Young McNally is Deputy Director of Commercial Operations at the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). She discusses how DIU's Commercial Solutions Opening framework helps bring new commercial technology companies into military contracting.

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“40% of the companies that, that win our solutions every year are first time to DoD, right?”

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McNally: Secretary Hegseth mandated commercial procurement models for all DoD software
“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.”
Liz Young McNally May 6, 2025 ▶ 8:27 Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
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“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?”
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