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Air Force

DoD Technologist Looks To Scale New Rapid-Fielding Effort

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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford A new Pentagon rapid-fielding effort remains a work in progress but has had successes including helicopter-survivability efforts, a senior official said. Zachary Lemnios, the Pentagon's director of defense research and engineering (DDR&E), recently told lawmakers the challenge dominating most of his days is figuring out how to get new technologies to troops as fast as possible. Questioned on Capitol Hill by Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), Lemnios acknowledged his office's new rapid-fielding directorate is one of multiple Pentagon…

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