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Electronic Warfare Dominance, Hypersonics Among Top Priorities In Fiscal 2021 for Pentagon R&D Arm

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Electronic Warfare Dominance, Hypersonics Among Top Priorities In Fiscal 2021 for Pentagon R&D Arm
Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

Accelerating electronic warfare (EW) dominance, nuclear modernization, hypersonics, the development of fully networked command, control, and communications (FNC3), and test and evaluation infrastructure are the top priorities in fiscal 2021 for James Faist, the director of Defense Research and Engineering for Advanced Capabilities (DDR&E AC). While the specific EW dominance work is classified, DDR&E AC is focusing on EW as "a many-on-many offensive capability viable in highly contested environments," Faist said during a June 22 National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)…

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