Join NCMA DC on Thursday, May 18 for the third event in our new Technology Acquisition Series featuring the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). The DIU is the only Defense organization focused on the adoption of leading commercial and dual-use technology to solve operational challenges at speed to scale and grow the national security innovation base.
Our speaker, Christina Mokrane, is the Senior Acquisitions Officer for the DIU and the senior acquisition advisor to the Director for the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Portfolio. This meeting will be held virtually on Zoom from 12:15-1:00pm Eastern. Attendees are eligible to receive 1.0 CPE.
ABOUT THE DEFENSE INNOVATION UNIT:
The DIU awards scalable contracts to companies offering solutions to national security challenges across six critical technology sectors. They help minimize up-front costs for commercial tech companies interested in working with the Department of Defense (DoD). Through agile processes, contract authorities, and a diverse team of experts, they have reduced the time it takes the DoD to identify a problem, prototype a solution, and implement it into the field to two years or less.
With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, Chicago and inside the Pentagon, DIU is the Department’s gateway to leading technology companies across the country. The DIU’s DoD partners represent every Service and they engage at the highest levels to identify national security challenges that can be solved with commercial technology. Companies on contract with the DIU are backed by top-tier investors and represent $20.1 billion in private investments.