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The last few decades have been a period of transition for defense. An increasing number of startups have begun to rival large defense primes, the industry has gradually become a calculus of both hardware and software, and exponential technologies have forced the DoD to rethink how it has traditionally done business.\n\nThese changing conditions were some of the inputs to resulting in the DIU \u2013 Defense Innovation Unit \u2013 starting in 2015 within the Department of Defense, focused on accelerating the adoption of technology.\n\nIn this episode recorded at a16z\u2019s American Dynamism Summit in January, a16z General Partner Katherine Boyle is joined by the Director of the DIU, Doug Beck, plus two critical founders ushering in this new era of defense: Brian Schimpf, cofounder and CEO of Anduril and Brandon Tseng, cofounder of Shield AI.\n\nSo what does the next wave of defense innovation really look like? Let\u2019s find out.