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Space

DIU Sees Opportunities to Help DoD with Responsive Launch, LEO Networks

By Vivienne Machi

Friday, August 23rd, 2019

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DIU Sees Opportunities to Help DoD with Responsive Launch, LEO Networks

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) is set on improving military access to space with commercial contracts, with a focus on responsive launch capabilities and contributing to a department-wide effort to build a mesh network of sensors in Low-Earth Orbit. Four years after its inception, DIU has lost the “X” once positioned at the end of its name for “experimental” and pushed forward with a mission to accelerate the Defense Department’s adoption of commercial technology through rapid…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

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‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

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Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

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Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]