This week, the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (USD(R&E)) Emil Michael released the updated list of critical technologies for the Department. We were anticipating the list and even understood that the new list would significantly reduce the number of technologies.
The pared down list goes from 14 critical technologies to 6.
Looking at the list, it appears that several of the original 14 have been consolidated within the six. For example, the quantum and battlefield information dominance technologies—defined as Quantum and Battlefield Information Dominance (Q-BID): Delivering advanced capabilities to maintain communications, precision navigation and timing (PNT), and electromagnetic spectrum maneuverability, even in degraded or denied environments.—really combines the quantum science, FutureG, integrated network systems-of-systems from the original list.
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