Esper, Milley decline to endorse SCO realignment under DARPA, pledge to review

By Jason Sherman / July 17, 2019 at 3:14 PM
At the prompting of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the presumptive next defense secretary and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff both declined to endorse a controversial reorganization of the Strategic Capabilities Office under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, pledging to review the proposed change. Army Secretary Mike Esper and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley each briefly addressed the organizational change Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Mike Griffin is seeking to fold SCO...

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