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Pentagon Needs Extra Funds For ‘Next Force’ Tech Investment to Reverse Decade-long Decline

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Pentagon Needs Extra Funds For ‘Next Force’ Tech Investment to Reverse Decade-long Decline
The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense. DoD photo by Master Sgt. Ken Hammond, U.S. Air Force.

Budget cuts have left the technological capability of the “next force” most at risk, with research and engineering funding hard to come by and few places within the Defense Department budget to pull from unless Congress lifts the sequester spending caps, a top Pentagon research and engineering official said Tuesday. Investments in capability for today’s force have declined somewhat since about 2010 but are overall rising slightly over the Future Years Defense Program, and science and technology funding for the…

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