The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), an agency created in 2015 to accelerate the adoption of commercial technology to solve national security problems, is trying to reduce the time it takes to award contracts from 90 days to 60 days…
“If you’ve got great technology and a good team, you could probably raise money from the venture community in 60 to 90 days,” said Col. Steve “Bucky” Butow. “We wanted to make sure, you could get funding out of our program at the same time.” …
“I like making multiple awards,” Butow said. “At DIU, we don’t like to pick winners, we build menus. Sometimes we get two solutions that are quite unique and we want both of them.”
That was an article from SpaceNews. I thought DIU had been awarding contracts in 60 days or less several years ago. For example, here is an article from 2017:
DIUx used certain OTAs called Commercial Solutions Openings (CSO) that awards contracts in 60 days or less.
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