The Strategic Capabilities Office is seeking nearly $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2019 -- an increase of more than 20 percent over FY-18 -- to develop new and surprising ways of using existing technology to bolster conventional deterrence against China and Russia. The request is the second-largest unclassified pot of research and development funding in the Pentagon's new budget. The request includes $1.4 billion for advanced innovative technologies to fund two-dozen projects, $37 million for research into advanced innovative concepts...