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DoD Developing Third ‘Offset’ Strategy Focused On Precision Munitions

Pat Host

Tuesday, March 17th, 2015

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DoD Developing Third ‘Offset’ Strategy Focused On Precision Munitions

A Tomahawk launched off a U.S. Navy vessel. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The Defense Department is developing a third "offset" strategy focused on maintaining the United States' advantage in precision guided munitions (PGM), Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said Tuesday.The third offset, he said, is a two-pronged approach: a jab and punch. Work said the "jab" is winning a precision guided munitions war. DoD, he said, wants industry to offer new and non-kinetic solutions to provide it with the "punch" to knock-out the adversary. "We have to devise new means of exploiting the…

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