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Shyu Details Progress On Rapid Experimentation Campaign, Future Opportunities For Industry

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, November 30th, 2021

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Shyu Details Progress On Rapid Experimentation Campaign, Future Opportunities For Industry

Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

The Pentagon’s lead technology official said Tuesday her office has funding to begin work on a rapid experimentation campaign to test emerging technologies, with plans to open up opportunities soon for industry to pitch new capabilities and concepts. Heidi Shyu, the under secretary of defense for research and engineering, said the fiscal year 2023 budget request will include funding and plans to further the annual experimentation initiative that aims to identify new technologies to address joint warfighting capability gaps. “We…

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