Mikayla Easley
Less than a year since the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit entered its new era dubbed DIU 3.0, the innovation hub has its eyes set on further scaling operations and bringing more non-traditional contractors into the department’s ecosystem.
DIU Director Doug Beck unveiled his updated strategic vision in early 2024 as a way to address a number of challenges that have kept the organization from accelerating the Defense Department’s adoption of dual-use, commercial technologies. A significant part of the new vision focused on both growing DIU and improving its ability to work with the commercial sector, Liz Young McNally, the organization’s deputy director for commercial operations, told DefenseScoop.
Hired in April 2024 to spearhead the unit’s collaboration with the commercial sector and investment community, McNally has spent the last several months integrating different components within DIU into a more unified commercial ops center while also helping the organization build out its regional infrastructure.
“DIU has folks all across the country helping to galvanize the defense innovation ecosystem,” she said in a recent interview. “We have onramp hubs, we have individuals — both government and contractor — bringing in talent, new companies [and] new technology into the department.”
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