The Department of Defense has made significant progress in the past 15 months in offensive and defensive hypersonic capabilities to counter developments from China and Russia, its chief engineer said Tuesday. Now, the Pentagon is aiming to make the same kind of progress in developing 5G networks and microelectronics. “I want to be the offense” when it comes to hypersonics, a technology in which the United State pioneered the underlying research 15 years before, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Michael Griffin said at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. “we chose not to weaponize it.” While the U.S. chose … Continue reading Competition to Build 5G Networks, Hypersonics Focus for Pentagon Research Chief