DefenseScoop | Jon Harper
The Pentagon's secretive Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO), led by Director Jay Dryer, is executing a $1.7 billion budget this year to rapidly prototype and transition "game-changing" high-tech solutions for near-term challenges. The SCO operates across three core portfolios: long-range fires, autonomy and AI, and "special and enabling capabilities" like cyber, electronic warfare, space, and special operations forces. Its eight focus areas include precision fires, contested logistics, novel employment, deception, advanced kill webs, countering adversary kill chains, extended reach and survivability, and cost-effective air defense. Dryer emphasized that the SCO prioritizes warfighter needs over technology, adopting a service-agnostic and cross-domain approach to develop disruptive capabilities. The office collaborates with combatant commands and industry, focusing on demonstrating efficacy and adapting to evolving threats. Notable projects include Ghost Fleet unmanned vessels, the Hypervelocity Gun Weapon System, and the Pele nuclear power plant program.
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