Pentagon’s Technology Office Places Microelectronics As New Top Priority

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The Pentagon’s technology office has shifted its top modernization priority from hypersonics tomicroelectronics, an official said Tuesday, adding the department will look to greater advantageof commercial products in the area.Mark Lewis, director of defense research and engineering for modernization, told attendeesduring an online AFCEA event the Pentagon will look to move away from its “trusted foundry”model for microelectronics to avoid falling behind industry’s rapid pace of technologydevelopment.