Pentagon leaders have issued new operating principles for managing the defense science and technology enterprise, emphasizing a goal of improved coordination and efficiency in a "challenging budgetary environment." The January 2014 document serves to streamline the Defense Department's existing "Reliance 21" framework, designed to align the military's S&T organizations on a common course. The framework is based around seven priorities, set by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates in April 2011: autonomy, countering weapons of mass destruction, cyber, "data to decisions,"...
