
A recent shift in plans by the Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to accelerate efforts to speed the adoption of commercial technologies for use by warfighters is lacking the establishment of performance goals to measure success of the effort, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report. DIU needs a performance management process to define goals, collect related data, and then use the information to chart progress toward the goals and inform its decisions, the congressional auditors…