These Are The New Weapons That The Pentagon Wants For Tomorrow's Wars

Patrick Tucker, Defense One: These Are the New Weapons the Pentagon Chief Wants for Tomorrow’s Wars

Defense secretary lays out his vision for the next decade’s killer capabilities in 2017 budget preview.

Smarter smart bombs, mini railguns, and swarming robot boats to watch man-made islands are a few of the key technology areas that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter sees as vital to U.S. military superiority in the next decade. In a preview of the Pentagon’s upcoming 2017 budget request, Carter said military research and development spending would rise to $71.4 billion from last year’s $71.3 billion request.) Carter also listed areas where the Defense Department was already seeing “returns” on R&D spending through the Strategic Capabilities Office, or SCO.

“I’d like to tell you about a few projects SCO has been working on that we’re funding in the budget,” he said. “Some you may have heard of, and some we’re talking about here for the very first time” he said.

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