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Pentagon Officials Promote DIUx Tech Outreach To New Administration, Say Innovation Is ‘Not A Partisan Issue’

Pentagon Officials Promote DIUx Tech Outreach To New Administration, Say Innovation Is ‘Not A Partisan Issue’
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter is greeted by newly appointed Managing Director of Defense Innovation Unit Experimental Raj Shah as he arrives at Moffett Field, Calif., to deliver remarks at DIUx May 11, 2016.

The Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental (DIUx) will not be a year old when a new administration takes office in January. Pentagon officials hope bridges built by the nascent office between the Defense Department and Silicon Valley survive the transition.DIUx Director Raj Shah and others in Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s circle of technologically minded acolytes are confident that issues of technological advancement, modernization and acquisition agility are paramount to the nation’s success and transcend party politics.“Innovation is not a partisan issue,” Shah said Nov.…

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