Shyu Details Top Technology Priorities, Efforts To Help Small Firms Work With DoD R&E Office

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The Pentagon’s new lead technology official on Tuesday detailed her top priority areas forleveraging commercial industry innovation, to include trusted artificial intelligence and quantumcomputing, as well as new initiatives she’s leading to make it easier for small businesses towork with the department.Heidi Shyu, under secretary of defense for research and engineering, specifically cited thePentagon’s new Innovation Steering Group and a push for legislation to bolster funds for theSmall Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program as key efforts to bring in more innovativeideas from smaller businesses and non-traditional partners.