The Defense Department is not yet prepared to disclose what percentage of the overall research and development budget it will use to finance the upcoming technological "offset" strategy aimed to guide long-term R&D spending, but a top acquisition official did provide a list of likely investment areas. Katrina McFarland, the assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, listed autonomous systems, human systems and cognition, electronic warfare, quantum sciences, hypersonics, and the handling of large data as focus areas in which the...
