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Monday, May 19, 2025 - Reading time: 2.5 minutes

*Open Solicitations*

*Joint Low-Collateral Defeat Capabilities* ( https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00597?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com )

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MAY 19, 2025
We are seeking the most agile commercial companies with low-collateral defeat (LCD) capabilities to meet the evolving challenges in countering UAS, scaling your solutions across the joint force in support of Replicator 2 and integrating your capabilities into existing programs of record. This call builds on multiple efforts to deliver strategic capability and to build new innovative muscle for the DoD. Submissions close May 19.

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*Advance Operational Readiness Across Manufacturing Parts and Production Platforms* ( https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00594?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com )

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MAY 26, 2025
Calling all advanced manufacturing companies: Our Foundry for Operational Readiness and Global Effects (FORGE) solicitation is seeking solutions to boost production capacity and remove production bottlenecks for cast metal parts used in high-performance aeronautical systems. We are looking for advanced manufacturing techniques that support high-rate production, but open to any novel methods which best achieve the government’s goals such as, but not limited to: survivability, reliability, and affordability. Submissions close May 26.

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*Advanced Marine Propulsion and Power System Technology* ( https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00591?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com )

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JUNE 5, 2025
Does your company have a proven Integrated Power System technology to inform and de-risk power and propulsion design for the next generation Navy destroyer? Submit your solution to our Advanced Marine Propulsion and Energy for Revolutionary Efficiency (AMPERE) solicitation to enhance the warfighting capabilities of the U.S. Navy’s next-generation surface destroyers. These vessels must remain adaptable and lethal against both conventional and asymmetric threats to maintain superiority in the evolving maritime domain. Submissions close June 5.

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*Open Programs*

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*$1M Available for Scalable UAS Detection, Identification, and Tracking* ( https://nsin.mil/events/2025-05-20-cuas-low-cost-sensing-challenge/?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com )

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MAY 20, 2025
Do you have solutions for scalable, cost-effective UAS detection, identification, and tracking? We are looking to enhance the DoD’s counter-UAS capabilities while addressing cost and scalability limitations associated with traditional radars, optical sensors, and radio frequency detection systems. Applications close on May 20.

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*Upcoming Events*

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*Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) AI+ Expo* ( https://expo.scsp.ai/?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com )

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JUNE 2-4, 2025
Join representatives from the Defense Innovation Community of Entities, or DICE, including AFWERX, NAVALX, DARPA and more, at this collaborative forum for government, industry, and academia to connect on key issues around AI. Come together in the nation’s capital to share ideas, showcase solutions, and cultivate opportunities to work together.

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*US Export Controls Webinar — UK Focused* ( https://www.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_rANVklULTcC4E-ytB20e-A?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com )

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JUNE 10, 2025
Interested in learning how to work with the DoD and how to adhere to U.S. export controls? Join experts from the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls and the Bureau of Industry and Security.

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*DIU News*

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*DIU Hosts Blue Manufacturing Informational Webinar* ( https://www.diu.mil/latest/defense-innovation-unit-launches-blue-manufacturing-initiative-to-strengthen?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com )

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Gain insights into our new Blue Manufacturing initiative, the call for trusted advanced manufacturing partners to support scaling production of critical technology capabilities. This hour-long information session provides an overview of the program as well as a detailed question and answer session.

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( https://www.diu.mil/latest/DOD-selects-eligible-companies-for-the-Advanced-Nuclear-Power-for-Installations-Program?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com )

*DoD Selects Companies for Advanced Nuclear Power Installations Program* ( https://www.diu.mil/latest/DOD-selects-eligible-companies-for-the-Advanced-Nuclear-Power-for-Installations-Program?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com )

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Eight vendors were selected as eligible to receive Other Transaction awards to field microreactor technology as part of DIU’s Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations (ANPI) program. To secure U.S. energy dominance, the ANPI project seeks to build fixed, on-site microreactor nuclear power systems on select military installations and support multi-domain operations ensuring resilience from constrained grid energy systems, natural disasters, or physical and cyber attacks to infrastructure.

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*$300,000 Awarded in First US-Japan Prize Challenge* ( https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7323700231743713283?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com )

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Two California-based companies, PHC Global and Peak Metrics, were awarded the Japan-U.S. Global Innovation Challenge splitting $300,000 in prize money. PHC Global was selected as the “AI-biodefense” solution, and Peak Metrics was selected as the “Judging Information Accuracy & Counter Disinformation” solution.

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*D* ( https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00591?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com&utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sendgrid.com ) *IU Data Digest*

DIU works with companies across the country and around the world to lower barriers to entry to the DoD and broader defense marketplace. In FY 2024, 87% of contract awards went to non-traditional vendors.

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The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) strengthens national security by accelerating the adoption of commercial technology in the Department of Defense and bolstering our allied and national security innovation bases. DIU partners with organizations across the DoD to rapidly prototype and field dual-use capabilities that solve operational challenges at speed and scale. With offices in Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, Chicago and Washington, D.C., DIU is the Department’s gateway to leading technology companies across the country.

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