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Pentagon Prepares Advanced Tech Development For Incoming Administration To Pursue

Pentagon Prepares Advanced Tech Development For Incoming Administration To Pursue
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work shakes hands with a California Highway Patrolman before boarding a plane at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, Ventura County, Calif., returning to Joint Base Andrews, Md. to end a three-day trip to Arizona and California, Dec. 4, 2016. (DOD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith)

The Defense Department under Secretary Ash Carter and his deputy Robert Work has established a menu of research and development efforts from which the new administration can choose technologies that should maintain U.S. military dominance over future adversaries.In the past two and half years, Work said Carter set his scientific workforce to figuring what technologies are critical to establishing dominance over Chinese and Russian capabilities. He then launched a series of short- and long-range research efforts to develop technology demonstrators…

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