The Pentagon Is Rethinking Investments In Future Technology

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A rendering of future military technologies from DARPA.

Pentagon procurement chief Frank Kendall will soon review the military services’ budget proposals for fiscal year 2016. Most likely, he will challenge their funding choices.

Kendall said his staff has compiled a technology wish list with items that have not been funded but “ought to be in the services' budgets.”

There will tough negotiations over the next several months as the office of the defense secretary seeks to redirect funding priorities and shape the services’ future investments.

This is part of a “long-range research and development planning program” aimed at protecting the military’s technological edge through the next several decades. The goal is to ensure the Defense Department is funding key technologies it will need to defeat new enemies, Kendall said Sept. 3 at the ComDef industry conference in Washington, D.C.



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