
The Defense Department’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) last Friday released its first Investment Strategy, which identifies the priority technologies areas and the framework for selecting these technologies. The priority areas are nanomaterials and metamaterials, bioenergetics and synthetic biology, Open RAN, sensor hardware, assembly, testing, and packaging related to microelectronics, materials also related to microelectronics, quantum computing, quantum security, and quantum sensing, battery storage, and space-enabled services and equipment. The priorities for investment are key components and processes within the…