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Culture Within DoD Remains Biggest Obstacle To Success For Startups, DIU Chief Says

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

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Culture Within DoD Remains Biggest Obstacle To Success For Startups, DIU Chief Says

Doug Beck, director of the Defense Innovation Unit and senior advisor to the secretary of defense. Photo: DoD

The way more non-traditional defense companies will grow their business with the Defense Department is for more of them to be successful in doing so, which will provide more courage for acquisition organizations within the department to accept the risk of working with startups, the head of the DoD unit focused on accelerating the use of commercial technology said this week. The biggest challenge for DoD in working with startups is “culture,” which Doug Beck summed up as everything from…

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