Pentagon officials should take steps to ensure strategic technology issues are given higher priority within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, or risk jeopardizing the military's ability to fully exploit scientific advancements in the new century, according to a new Defense Science Board report. "An unsurpassed ability to understand and exploit the military implications of technology has long been a cornerstone of U.S. defense strategy," the DSB report's task force co-chairmen, Theodore Gold and Donald Latham, write in a...