The Pentagon's technology chief said today the Defense Department is working on a "bio industrial manufacturing" program, highlighting recent awards that small businesses have received to provide the U.S. military with new technologies in that area. Heidi Shyu, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said at the AI Expo for National Competitiveness in Washington that DOD has recently begun the new program. “We have recently kicked off the DOD’s bio industrial manufacturing program and this is very exciting,”...