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A senior Defense Innovation Unit leader urged the Navy to move far faster toward unmanned vessels and reduce reliance on manned platforms. Matthew Shortal, DIU’s principal deputy director and chief co

BMNT is hiring a Program Manager for Hacking for Defense (H4D) in Arlington, Virginia, to run day-to-day operations for DIU’s Innovation with Academia portfolio. H4D began at Stanford and has grown in

ThayerMahan, a maritime technology company based in Groton, Connecticut, has launched SeaGuard, a 4,921-foot underwater barrier designed to stop uncrewed underwater vehicles without explosives or torp

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has created a new Direct Reporting Portfolio Manager for autonomy and unmanned systems, called DRPM-UxS, to consolidate much of the Pentagon’s drone-related work under o

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) has launched the Commercial Solutions Catalog to speed the delivery of prototyped commercial technologies across the Department of War (DoW) and its partners. The cat

A senior Defense Innovation Unit official said the Pentagon is applying lessons from the first phase of its Replicator initiative as it moves into a second phase focused on counter-drone capabilities.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks used her Defense News Conference remarks to explain the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative as part of a broader push to accelerate innovation for warfighter ad

The Pentagon is pursuing AI-enhanced target recognition to help troops, vehicles, and ships defeat drones more quickly and accurately. The Defense Innovation Unit’s C-UAS Close-In Kinetic Defeat Enhan

The Pentagon is pursuing AI-enhanced target recognition to help troops, vehicles, and ships defeat drones more quickly and accurately. The Defense Innovation Unit’s C-UAS Close-In Kinetic Defeat Enhan

BMNT bootstrapped a defense revolution by focusing on problem validation, building agile teams, and creating an ecosystem connecting commercial, government, and academic sectors. They avoided traditio

BMNT, established in 2014, revolutionized the defense consulting industry without relying on venture capital or private equity. By December 2025, the company achieved $150 million in revenue, challeng