DIUx Quarterly Results – Q4 2017
October 17, 2017, Mountain View, CA: In the 17 months since its relaunch in May 2016, Defense
Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx), a Department of Defense entity , has continued to deliver on
its mission of accelerating commercial innovation to solve the Department of Defense (DoD)
problems. As of September 30, 2017, with the leadership and support of Army Contracting
Command of New Jersey (ACC-NJ), DIUx has awarded roughly $184 million for 59 pilot contracts
and two follow-on production contracts in the areas of autonomy, artificial intelligence, human
systems, information technology, and space.
DIUx awarded each pilot contract through a process that usually takes 90 calendar days from first
contact with a company in regard to a specific DoD problem. The majority of funding for these pilot
projects comes from DIUx’s DoD partners (i.e., the Military Departments, Combatant Commands,
the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and DoD agencies): for each $1 DIUx spends on a pilot
project, the DoD partner typically spends ~$4. Production contracts are funded entirely by DoD
partners.