DSB to continue discussing military superiority

The Defense Science Board will hold meetings in March and April to continue discussing an ongoing summer study on the future of U.S. military superiority, according to a pair of Federal Register notices posted this morning.

The meetings will take place March 20-21 and April 17-18, respectively, with DSB members meeting in small groups as well as plenary sessions "to 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," both notices state.

The task force was also scheduled to meet this week to discuss the same 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 deal with continuing 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.