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Join us for the Dual Use Innovation Day with SOCOM-MIT Iron Man Award
Dual Use Innovation Day (May 9, 2025 at MIT) is an invitation-only gathering of senior leaders, academic researchers, investors, and industry partners to showcase breakthrough dual-use innovations developed by MIT students. The event’s mission is to highlight...
Read the Allied Paper for Dual Use Ventures
The strategic playbook empowering dual-use innovators to bridge commercial breakthroughs and national security.
Picogrid Receives First Delivery Order From New $1B Space Force Program
Space Force awarded Picogrid the first delivery order from its Rapid, Resilient Command and Control (R2C2) program, aimed at enhancing command and control infrastructure for satellite systems.
Dual-Use Is a Strategy, Not a Category (Nor a Trap)
Our experience from MIT, working with startups across a range of critical technologies exploring defense and commercial civilian markets, is to define dual-use as a strategy, not a category.
Popular Science: The Army’s Infantry Squad Vehicle seats 9 and can be dropped from a cargo plane
Before the Army can win a battle, it has to move people into position. More specifically, it has to move squads of soldiers—close to the smallest functional unit of war—and make sure they are in a position to fight effectively.
Nextgov: DIU Issues Step-by-Step Guide for Defense Stakeholders to ‘Responsibly’ Use AI
The Defense Innovation Unit produced a comprehensive framework to help contractors and federal officials gauge whether their technology and programs align with the Defense Department’s Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence.
Breaking Defense: Silicon Valley warns the Pentagon: ‘Time is running out”
After years of research and development efforts, tech startups want to see the Pentagon commit to real production work.