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Kendall Says DIUx Chief Looking Inside DoD For Funding Sources

Kendall Says DIUx Chief Looking Inside DoD For Funding Sources
Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental (DIUx) chief George Duchak. Photo: Air Force.

The head of the Defense Department’s newly formed Silicon Valley outpost is increasingly looking inside DoD for sources of funding, according to the Pentagon’s acquisition executive.Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) Frank Kendall said Tuesday the job of George Duchak, the head of Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental (DIUx), and his staffers is to marry funding sources with DoD and technology sources from non-traditional sources. These DoD-internal funding sources, Kendall said, include the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency…

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