DSB to continue studying future of U.S. military superiority

The Defense Science Board will hold a series of closed meetings in the coming months to discuss its summer study on the "Future of U.S. Military Superiority," according to a new Federal Register notice.

During the meetings, attendees will "discuss classified ways in which the [Defense Department] can secure U.S. interests, manage escalation, and deter and counter adversary aggression, given a renewed great power competition,” today's notice states.

The meetings will take place May 14-15, June 12-13 and July 10-11. The DSB has been meeting monthly since the start of the year on this topic.

The study was commissioned last October by Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin, a new one-year project that reflects the continued angst of senior U.S. policymakers over how to address advances by China's and Russia's armed forces.

"I ask the Defense Science Board to develop creative ways and means beyond traditional weapon systems to achieve National Defense Strategy objectives," Griffin wrote in a two-page memo commissioning the study, calling for "novel employment and harmonization of existing whole-of-government capabilities."

Craig Fields, DSB chairman, and Eric Evans, MIT Lincoln Laboratory director, are co-leading the new study.