The plan lays out three lines of efforts: accelerating the development of joint warfighting capabilities, fielding capabilities at speed and scale, and ensuring the foundations for research and development through workforce development and upgrading physical and digital infrastructure.
“Everything we’ve been doing is very much focused in on the joint warfighting capabilities and what we need to do to fight as a joint force,” said Heidi Shyu, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
Spearheaded by Heidi Shyu, the strategy will seek investments and concentrated efforts on 14 critical technology areas.