Navy creates agility task force for emerging technologies

By Mallory Shelbourne / August 7, 2018 at 5:48 PM
The Navy has formed an agility task force designed to help the service expedite its creation and use of "emerging technology." Navy acquisition chief Hondo Geurts announced the task force's formation in an internal memo dated July 27 . "Our potential adversaries have clear strategic intent and have begun nation-scale efforts to gain competitive advantages," Geurts wrote. "To overcome these challengers, we will need to take advantage of rapidly emerging technologies that will change the very character of war where...

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