‘Slow-Boil Crisis’: DIA Needs More Capability to Track Russian, Chinese Tech Work
It takes years to train intelligence analysts, but the Pentagon doesn’t have “that kind of time.”
By Patrick Tucker
Technology Editor
December 6, 2021 05:51 PM ET
PHOENIX, Arizona—The U.S. military is “in a slow-boil crisis” because of Russian and Chinese technology development, particularly in areas such hypersonics, computing, and AI, Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, said Monday.
“When you think about the modernization that the People's Republic of China has undergone over the last 25 to 30 years, it truly is incredible,” Berrier said, especially in space and cyber. “And just very recently, they have demonstrated much of that capability to include space hypersonics and other capabilities. That is very, very concerning for our nation.”
The agency will rely heavily on new technologies and modernized processes to meet the military intelligence portion of that challenge, Berrier and other DIA officials said at the agency’s annual DODIIS conference here.
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