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DIU’s Kumar: Flexible Funding Should Be ‘Proliferated’ Across DoD To Support Rapid Innovation

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DIU’s Kumar: Flexible Funding Should Be ‘Proliferated’ Across DoD To Support Rapid Innovation
Defense Innovation Unit Deputy Director, Strategy, Policy & National Security Partnerships, Aditi Kumar discusses next steps in defense strategy and technology during a “Next-Gen Defense Roundtable” dialogue at the Capital Factory House during South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, March 8, 2024. (DOD Photo by: Devon Bistarkey)

A lead official from the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit said Thursday that flexible funding authorities her office has “should be proliferated” across the department to support the rapid fielding of emerging technologies.  “I do think that those funding structures should be proliferated across more parts of the department. I cannot underscore enough the partnership with Congress on this and the importance of the trust that they have placed in us and that relationship of continuing to build that trust and…

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