Shyu: Budget gridlock hamstrings Pentagon’s tech fast-track programs like RDER, APFIT
“On an annual basis, we have a CR, half the year’s gone,” the undersecretary for Research & Engineering said. “Our adversary doesn’t have the same constraints."
Pentagon CTO eyes increased experiments with Australia in rapid tech push
Although slim on details, Heidi Shyu told reporters today that DoD will conduct a Technology Readiness Experimentation event sometime this year with its Australian counterparts and will conduct a new sprint of RDER with them next year.
After 2 years of experimenting, Pentagon to evaluate RDER tech
“So the decision at the DMAG will be, should that be a single service, or [does] every service just buy what they want, right?” Heidi Shyu told reporters about the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve.
New AUKUS tech announcement coming in fall, Pentagon’s tech chief says
"A path that I proposed is linking that together to show a portfolio of capabilities," Heidi Shyu said about a new AUKUS announcement. "So that will be coming out soon.”
Pentagon’s R&E office stands up 3 new assistant secretaries, 8 new DASDs
“The establishment of these roles within Research & Engineering better positions our team to execute upon our mission of preserving our nation’s technological edge, now and into the future,” Heidi Shyu, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said.
House lawmakers propose renaming, expanding DoD’s top tech officer role
In addition to Heidi Shyu's expanded role, lawmakers have tasked the undersecretary of research and engineering to develop a strategy on how the Pentagon can leverage intellectual property to "enhance" its ability to procure emerging technologies and outpace adversaries.
Pentagon kicks off tech experiments aimed at joint requirements, RDER
A portion of the experiment will include opportunities for industry to showcase their technologies through a prototype technology display.
Can’t go it alone: DoD to ‘step away’ from conventional thinking in new S&T strategy
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.
DoD approves next step for GPI to defend against hypersonic missiles
"Industry has told us that they they think they can go faster, and we're hopeful that we can accelerate the program," said Laura DeSimone, Missile Defense Agency executive director.
DoD launches new ‘effort’ to rapidly adopt commercial space capabilities
“We need to take advantage of the diversity of novel ideas and products available from the commercial sector to complement the DoD space and deliver capabilities to our warfighter at a far quicker pace," said Heidi Shyu, the Pentagon's undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
Pentagon science and tech strategy expected ‘very shortly,’ focus on joint ops, rapid prototyping
“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.
BAE transitioning first set of multi-chip prototypes into EW systems under DoD’s SHIP program
With the delivery of the first set of prototypes, “the pendulum is swinging back to onshoring our own domestic capabilities," Heidi Shyu, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, told reporters.
DoD kickstarts tight-lipped RDER experiments this year: Official
"We're going to be off and running, literally demonstrating these prototypes in a contested environment," Heidi Shyu, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said. "So it...can't just work in a lab. It's got to work in a real environment. And that's exactly what we're focusing on."
Donald Trump Needs A ‘Bigger Stick,’ So Up Defense $: Thornberry
WASHINGTON: The odds keep getting better that Donald Trump will ask for a big boost to defense spending in a supplemental request soon after his inauguration. But who gets how much for what? That raises a whole host of unanswered questions, experts and policymakers made clear today at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. […]