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DoD Pledges Roughly $13 Billion For Third Offset Strategy Wargaming, Experimentation

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DoD Pledges Roughly $13 Billion For Third Offset Strategy Wargaming, Experimentation

The Triton arriving at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. Sept. 18, 2014. Photo: U.S. Navy

The Defense Department plans to spend between $12 billion and $15 billion in fiscal year 2017 on wargaming, experimentation and demonstrations to prove out the five components of its “third offset” strategy, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said Monday.The third offset strategy is the Pentagon’s plan to maintain technological superiority in a modern era that includes two superpower adversaries in China and Russia. Work said DoD is focusing for the next year on performing “intellectual underpinning” and as much demonstration…

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