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Monday, July 15, 2024
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NSIN Capstone students from the Texas A&M University delivered a 3D prototype of a loading system that could improve safety for Airmen during cargo loading operations in austere environments, bringing to life an idea originally devised by an Airman at Elmendorf Air Force Base. The system has the potential to replace a risky, cumbersome method originally devised during the Vietnam War.
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Finalists in the Cyber Innovators Challenge will pitch their cutting-edge solutions to address critical cyber threats as they compete for part of a $1 million prize pool during the Cyber Innovators Challenge Pitch Event, hosted virtually by NSIN, in partnership with the Department of Defense University Consortium for Cybersecurity (UC2).
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Entrepreneurs and professionals interested in working with the DoD can learn the basics with the NSIN Transition Cell during their webinar series, taking place every third Thursday of the month. Discussion topics range from budget cycles, types of government customers, and types of appropriations. There will be a Q&A period at the end of each session.
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Dr. Jaret Riddick, Senior Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) and former Principal Director for Autonomy in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) shared that the U.S. has a unique critical asset to its national security and defeating foreign adversaries - our diverse communities, especially those that harness untapped talent in technical fields. When facing the Great Power Competition, the U.S. can maintain advantage by seeking talent in underrepresented communities.
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DIU’s Replicator Initiative – a plan to provide all-domain attritable autonomous systems (ADA2) to warfighters at a scale of multiple thousands, across multiple warfighting domains, within 18-24 months – has the potential to act as a deterrent against conflict and to spur greater innovation within the DoD. The Wall Street Journal Opinion desk emphasized that the U.S. military should learn from Ukraine, where forces on both sides are leveraging cheap drones to fight with mass and overwhelm their enemies.
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In its fiscal year 2025 defense policy bill, the Senate Armed Services Committee urged DIU to develop a plan to partner with universities and tech companies across the country, especially in areas that are not currently major technology and innovation hubs. The bill also encouraged DIU to deepen relationships with DoD laboratories, university affiliated research centers (UARCs), and other innovation ecosystem entities from across the nation.
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DEFENSE INNOVATION EVENTS |
Join Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to learn more about other transaction (OT) agreements and discover how they differ from more traditional DoD contracting vehicles. Speakers include James "Mac" Ritch, Ali Etedali, and Scott Ulrey, DARPA Contract Management Officers.
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Join the Defense Strategies Institute for the 7th Annual Directed Energy Symposium to explore the latest advancements and applications in directed energy technologies adapted for the warfighter.
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Companies with communications equipment that could ensure connectivity across a heterogeneous swarm of multi-domain autonomous platforms may submit their solutions to DIU for the opportunity to receive an OT award.
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Companies with ability to lead an agile development activity, including the creation, design, development, demonstration and deployment of large-scale distributed autonomy solutions that could coordinate hundreds or thousands of unmanned assets in a shared environment, particularly when navigation and communications are disrupted or denied, may submit their solutions to DIU for the opportunity to receive an OT award.
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Companies with the ability to support the DoD’s shift to hydrogen (H2) technologies with a prototype of an integrated, electrolysis-based H2 production, storage, and distribution system may submit their solutions to DIU for the opportunity to to receive an OT award.
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