Once-Secret Pentagon Agency Asks Industry to Help Find New Ideas
- Strategic Capabilities Office seeks new uses for old weapons
- Carter wants the agency to get $902 million in seed money
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A recently declassified Pentagon office that gives the military services seed money to test new ways of employing existing weapons, platforms and sensors plans to issue a call to the defense industry for new ideas.
It will be the Strategic Capabilities Office’s first major attempt to enlist industry input since it was set up in 2012 and then declassified in February by Defense Secretary Ash Carter, its director, Will Roper, told reporters Monday at his suburban Virginia headquarters.