SILICON VALLEY, CALIFORNIA — In the middle of a vast complex on NASA’s Moffett Airfield, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, is a nondescript two-story building where the Pentagon is working with tech companies on its latest top secret project.
Except for parking spaces with tiny signs that said “DIUx Guest,” there is no indication the building is home to the Defense Innovation Unit – Experimental (DIUx), the Pentagon’s outpost for tech firms who want to create solutions for the world’s largest weapons buyer.
One example of a project on display at DIUx was the “saildrone” — a bright orange drone that looks like a surfboard with a sail on top, equipped with four-way cameras and sensors that can measure air temperature, windspeed, the size of fish and other subsurface objects
Wind- and solar-powered, the saildrone can be deployed for 12 months at a time in harsh weather conditions and to hard-to-reach places like the Arctic, potentially saving the Navy and Coast Guard millions of dollars in fuel, labor and other resources.
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