GSA ITC Edu Series: GSA/FAS/ITC and DIU Partnership

Learn about the benefits of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and the General Services Administration (GSA) partnership. We’ll highlight DIU efforts to support Department of Defense operations through their quick prototyping process, and the positive impacts of partnering with GSA to get products & solutions to more federal, state, local, and territorial organizations as efficiently and effectively as possible. We’ll also explore the focus areas within DIU that closely align with products/solutions that GSA already provides to the marketplace. This allows the collaboration between the two organizations to more efficiently support the warfighter, as well as civilian agencies while using “dual use” technologies.

Learning Objectives:

• DIU’s overall mission and why it is so important
• Discuss DIU’s “successful completion” of prototype projects; 0-24 months
• GSA’s Multiple Award Schedules within FAS/ITC and ways/advantages of being in a partnership with GSA
• Additional pPrime and sSubcontractor relationships formed by performing joint ventures with GSA MAS holders
• New collaboration in areas of DIU’s Commercial Solutions Openings (CSO) process for Multiple Award Schedule vendors with DIU-companies