Navy S&T board to brief service leadership on disruptive tech later this month

The Navy’s Science and Technology Advisory Board will convene at the end of April to deliver classified recommendations to service leaders on ways for the Navy and Marine Corps to quickly integrate disruptive technologies, a Thursday announcement states.

According to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, the recently established S&T board’s first assignment is to “investigate ways to rapidly integrate asymmetric technologies that have the potential to change the very nature of warfighting.”

“They are meeting later this month, and I greatly look forward to their recommendations,” Del Toro said Tuesday during the Navy League’s Sea-Air-space conference.

The closed meeting will run from April 30 to May 1, with Navy and Marine Corps leadership briefed on opportunities to leverage new, disruptive technologies to “expand warfighting advantage,” the announcement states.

The S&T board was established in September 2023 to provide the Navy with independent advice on a variety of policy areas including science, technology, manufacturing, acquisitions, logistics, medicine, and business management.

This week, Del Toro also announced the release of a new naval science and technology strategy, indicating it will emphasize unmanned systems, biotech and efforts to strengthen the shipbuilding industrial base.