House authorizers want to nearly double the Defense Innovation Unit's fiscal year 2023 budget and fund an experimental avenue for bringing commercial technology into the military, in the weeks after some lawmakers publicly questioned top Pentagon officials' commitment to the organization. The House Armed Services Committee’s draft " chairman's mark " of the defense policy bill, obtained today by Inside Defense ahead of its public release next week, recommends directing a total of $157.4 million to the Pentagon's Silicon...
