The director of the Pentagon’s commercial innovation hub, Doug Beck, has resigned from his post, Defense News has learned.

First reported by Politico, the circumstances of Beck’s resignation from the Defense Innovation Unit were not immediately clear. A DIU spokesperson declined to comment, and the Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for details.

Beck, a Navy Reserve captain and former Apple executive, took the helm of DIU in 2023 . At the time, the organization was at an inflection point. Then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had just elevated the small, experimental unit to report directly to his office and Congress was proposing nearly $1 billion in funding for the office. Beck’s role was to help DIU field commercial technology to military units on faster timelines and

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