Pentagon Leaders Visit Defense Innovation Unit In Silicon Valley

By Tony Bertuca / August 5, 2015 at 10:22 AM
Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work and Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall made a trip to Silicon Valley this week to visit a newly established unit charged with identifying emerging commercial technologies that could benefit defense. On Tuesday, Work and Kendall met with newly appointed leaders from the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, dubbed DIUx, which is the Pentagon's new “point of presence” in Silicon Valley. “They met with the DIUx Director George Duchak and Rear Adm. Brian Hendrickson, who is serving...

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