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Shyu Details Pentagon’s Plans For New Joint Experiment To Test Emerging Tech Starting In FY ‘23

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, November 8th, 2021

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Shyu Details Pentagon’s Plans For New Joint Experiment To Test Emerging Tech Starting In FY ‘23

Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

The Pentagon’s lead technology official on Monday detailed the department’s plans to hold a new annual joint experimentation event beginning in fiscal year 2023 that will test out emerging technologies to address joint warfighting capability gaps. Heidi Shyu, the under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said her office received over 200 ideas for technologies to participate in the first iteration of the event before paring it down to 32 technology concepts that will be tested in FY ‘23.…

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