The Pentagon's acquisition executive has commissioned a study of emerging technologies that will be pivotal over the next two decades to the development and fielding of the "next generation of dominant military capabilities," an assessment that could influence research and development spending as soon as fiscal year 2014. Frank Kendall, acting under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, has directed the Defense Science Board to conduct a study on "technology and innovation enablers for superiority in 2030," an...
