DSB to brief senior leaders on 'strategic surprise' study next week

The Defense Science Board will hold a series of closed-to-the-public meetings next week to discuss "potential technical gaps in Department of Defense capabilities that may affect subsequent decisions and actions of U.S. commanders and warfighters in the next decade," according to a notice posted in today's Federal Register.

Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin this past spring tasked the DSB to conduct a "2018 Summer Study on Strategic Surprise."

Griffin wrote in an April 20 memo that the study's objective "is to consider what potential technical capabilities may not be sufficiently acted upon by the Department of Defense in the decade to come, that will lead to U.S. regrets in 2028 and, in broad terms, what those actions might be."

Meetings will take place throughout the week beginning Monday, with a final one being held next Friday consisting of "a classified briefing to invited senior DOD leaders to provide the DSB's advice and recommendations."