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Pentagon to Trim List of Critical Technology Areas

The Department of Defense aims to streamline focus by cutting critical tech areas while investing $200-300 billion annually to accelerate AI, hypersonics, and directed energy deployment.

Summary by defensescoop.com
The Defense Department’s list of critical technology areas that it wants to prioritize is about to get shorter, according to the Pentagon’s CTO. Emil Michael, the new undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and DOD chief technology officer — who also became acting director of the Defense Innovation Unit earlier this week after Doug Beck resigned — said Wednesday he plans to remove some of the list’s current categories. During the …

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defensescoop.com broke the news in on Wednesday, August 27, 2025.
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