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The Defense Ministry’s innovation arm will move its best-performing prototypes to civilian agencies through a new partnership with the General Services Administration.
The Defense Innovation Unit has signed a memorandum of understanding with the General Services Administration that aims to “facilitate state-of-the-art generation responses from federal agencies” by creating a framework for “the transition from effective prototype IUD generation responses to GSA contract vehicles,” according to a firm announcement.
The agreement focuses on key generation areas, such as synthetic intelligence and device learning, cybernetics, energy, human systems and space. building and increasing their use of commercially available technologies through “sharing expertise and intellectual resources among agencies,” said Laura Stanton, deputy commissioner of the GSA Office. Information Technology Category.
The agreement focuses on combining IUD use from other transaction agreements and follow-on production contracts to drive acquisitions with GSA’s FASt Lane procedure to attract defense industry partners.
The two organizations have partnered in the past on a drone-focused effort called Blue UAS, which is designed to make small-advertising unmanned aerial systems more accessible and comply with restrictions set forth in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020.
The new partnership comes as the IUD continues to expand its portfolio, and its physical presence in the U. S. Last year, the firm awarded 72 new prototypes of other agreement contracts, the firm reported in the past.
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