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Beck Putting Defense Innovation Unit On Steroids To Scale Adoption Of Commercial Technologies

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Beck Putting Defense Innovation Unit On Steroids To Scale Adoption Of Commercial Technologies
Doug Beck, director of the Defense Innovation Unit and senior advisor to the secretary of defense. Photo: DoD

Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) Director Doug Beck on Wednesday released his plans for the next stage of his agency, much of it focused on enhancing and strengthening existing partnerships between the commercial technology sector and the Defense Department, ratcheting up the adoption of commercial offerings to meet warfighting needs at scale, and scaling his organization to enhance its effectiveness. In his introduction to DIU 3.0: Scaling Defense Innovation for Strategic Impact, Beck outlines good news and bad news about current…

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