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DIU Solicits For Rugged, Commercial Tactical Compute Kits

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, February 16th, 2024

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DIU Solicits For Rugged, Commercial Tactical Compute Kits

The Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) last Thursday issued a solicitation for commercial solutions for ruggedized hardware kits that have the computing capabilities, storage, network readiness, and low latency for distributed operations in austere, joint environments. “Established DoD capabilities can be improved through the rapid integration of commercial technologies that enable a data transport-agnostic, partner and joint-ready, next-generation coordinated battlespace visualization network,” DIU says in the Frontier Node (Tactical Compute Kits) solicitation. DIU wants the data across the distributed…

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