Defense Innovation Unit Release Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge

May 30, 2025
Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) released its Dual-Use University Accelerator Challenge solicitation, a 12-week program which aims to provide prize awards, tailored mentorship, and defense engagement opportunities. The DIU University Defense Accelerator Prize seeks to address challenges in technology translation (between TRL 2-4) that students, faculty, and university-founded startups face.  Applications will be evaluated by a set of DOD innovation experts, and fifteen finalists will be selected to participate in the Accelerator Challenge starting in August 2025. 

This challenge will be open until 11:59 pm EST on June 25, 2025. More details can be found in the Lewis-Burke Report.

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