New DIUx program to give acquisition professionals a crash course in rapid procurement

Fed Scoop: The Pentagon’s experimental procurement group is looking for acquisition professionals who want to learn how to make the Defense Department a more attractive customer to cutting-edge technology companies.

The Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, better known as DIUx, is launching an acquisition program, HACQer, through which it will select a few motivated DOD acquisition professionals for a four month detail at its headquarters in Mountain View, California. The program is another opportunity for the group to share its ideas about how to acquire technology in a way that’s not traditional for the Pentagon.

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