An influential Army advisory panel is preparing an independent assessment of the service's realignment of its science and technology portfolio to recommend any further recalibration in response to evolving threats while sticking to the service's $2.4 billion annual S&T budget. The Army Science Board is slated this month to present findings of the new assessment, a follow-on to a fiscal year 2016 study on "Disruptive Innovative Concepts for the Future Army," commissioned last fall by then-acting Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy...