The Defense Department is seeking to catapult funding for a Third Offset Strategy project to mature a new technology designed to help re-energize conventional deterrence against China and Russia: a potential new way to defeat road-mobile ballistic missiles. The program is designed to meet a classified U.S. Strategic Command operational need for the Pacific region, according to DOD. The Pentagon, in mid-March, asked Congress for a $140 million boost in fiscal year 2017 funding, a 300 percent increase above the...
