Defense Leaders Key on Data Dominance, Faster Tech Fielding for Future Military Advantage

Senior defense leaders said on June 2 that future military advantage will depend on two capabilities: achieving data dominance across the battlespace and accelerating the transition of emerging technologies into operational use.

Speaking at GDIT Emerge in Washington, D.C., Lt. Gen. Jeth Rey, deputy chief of staff, G-6, U.S. Army, focused on the Army’s push to treat data as a warfighting capability, while Joseph Jewell, assistant secretary of defense for science and technology, emphasized the need to move innovations from research labs into operational use more quickly.