Department of Defense labs face $5 billion infrastructure shortfall
By Courtney Albon
Jan 24, 09:52 AM
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Defense is facing a $5 billion shortfall across its lab and testing infrastructure, and a new innovation steering group is working to identify which of those needs are most critical and find ways to fund them.
The group, led by Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Heidi Shyu, has been reviewing infrastructure needs across the DoD’s labs and testing facilities to better understand what capabilities the services need to support science and technology efforts. Speaking during a Jan. 19 Potomac Officers Club event, Shyu said the review has highlighted the scope of the need and the steering group is now working to understand the possible repercussions of that capability and funding gap.
“I need to understand from the $5 billion, which ones are most critical,” Shyu said. “If I don’t fund this, what happens? What are the implications if we don’t fund that?”
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