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Navy/USMC

DIU Awarded Three Prototype Contracts For Uncrewed Ops

Thursday, September 12th, 2024

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Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) logo. (Image: Department of Defense)

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) this week announced that earlier this year it awarded three contracts for vendors to build a database that allows unmanned systems to operate in disconnected or otherwise limited bandwidth environments. In January, DIU awarded these prototype contracts to Ditto, Syntiant and HarperDB with demonstrated project capabilities. This week, the DoD unit announced all three prototypes proved successful. DIU said under this project it worked with the Navy’s project Overmatch and Naval Information Warfare Systems Command,…

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