The Defense Innovation Unit announced today that three prototype agreements were awarded to vendors earlier this year for commercial technology meant to enable a database that allows uncrewed Navy systems to "operate effectively in disconnected, denied intermittent and/or limited bandwidth environments." DIU awarded the agreements in January to vendors Ditto, Syntiant and HarperDB, who “demonstrated project capabilities” in line with its Common Operational Database initiative, according to the Wednesday announcement. These agreements followed a mid-2023 partnership with the Navy and...