The Pentagon launched a military-grade Y Combinator, signaling that defense tech is officially cool on college campuses

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• The Pentagon's startup arm, the Defense Innovation Unit, launched an accelerator.
• The move is the latest in a trend of defense tech gaining ground on college campuses.
• The program will accept dual-use startups that have commercial and military-grade projects.

The Department of Defense is scouting the next Palantir — and it's starting on college campuses.

This week, the Defense Innovation Unit ...