
The Pentagon’s plan to deploy the first hypersonics and directed energy (DE) weapons capabilities by the early 2020s and match increasing investments from China and Russia will require the services to unify their technological modernization efforts, a top DoD official said Wednesday.Mary Miller, assistant secretary of defense for research and engineering, told attendees at a National Defense Industrial Association event that the Army, Air Force and Navy have to coordinate prototyping efforts as the department looks to spend $4.9 billion…