Pentagon's No. 2 official: Planned investments to rely on human-machine teaming

By Tony Bertuca / November 9, 2015 at 1:17 PM
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work over the weekend laid out the basic vision for the Pentagon's planned fiscal year 2017 investments in the so-called "third offset" innovation strategy, saying that human-machine collaboration is at the heart of most internal budgetary discussions on the matter. "Let me tell you what the big idea really is about: It's about human-machine collaboration and combat teaming," he said Oct. 7 during the Reagan Defense Forum in Simi Valley, CA. Work, who has discussed the...

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