Army Opening Office to Rapidly Deploy Combat Capabilities
- Initiative to focus first on cyber, electronic warfare, GPS
- ‘They are such obvious targets’ for innovation, Fanning says
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The U.S. Army is opening a new office to harness promising technologies that can be deployed within five years of identifying a combat need, an initiative its service secretary says is aimed at blunting an erosion in capabilities and countering improvements by Russia and other adversaries.
The Rapid Capabilities Office will concentrate initially on the quick prototyping and fielding of improvements to cyber operations, electronic warfare, survivability and GPS-enabled positioning, navigation and timing, Army Secretary Eric Fanning said in an interview. One question the new office might grapple with is how the Army fights in a contested environment where its GPS capability is jammed, he said.