Current Efforts
Congressionally Mandated Studies
Designation of Certain Facilities on Kwajalein Atoll as a Major Range and Test Facility Base
2026-01-30
Section 245 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025 requires the Science, Technology and Innovation Board to assess the feasibility and advisability of designating the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site and United States Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll as facilities and resources comprising the Major Range and Test Facility Base, including with respect to the availability and mission capability of such test site and garrison. Areas of focus: history and rationale for the split funding; status of, and interrelationship between, garrison infrastructure/operations and test asset operability, usage, and maintainability; status of supported or supporting relationship between the garrison, the test site, and LL/MIT and the long-term outlook for this partnership; and the role of the Kwajalein Atoll in supporting current and future missions of the DoD.
Optimal Organizational Structure for Digital Solution and Software Delivery
2026-01-30
Section 907 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 requires the Science, Technology and Innovation Board to conduct, at the Secretary of War’s direction, a comprehensive study to determine the optimal organizational structure under the Office of the Secretary of War (OUSW) for digital solutions engineering and software delivery across the Department. The study elements include: assessment of existing organizations supporting these deliverables; evaluation of potential reorganizational initiatives; analysis of optimal organizational structure; and recommendations for managing any changes.
Permanent Subcommittees
Permanent Subcommittee on Strategic Options
2026-01-30
The Science, Technology and Innovation Board, through the establishment of the Permanent Subcommittee on Strategic Options, is tasked to identify concepts, capabilities, strategies, and courses of action in the scientific and technical enterprises that inform decision-making and serve to rebalance intervention cost and benefit to ensure U.S. operational dominance. Areas of consideration will include new and novel uses of space assets; employment of cyber systems; development of new methodologies and countermeasures for electronic warfare; rapid collection and use of strategic counterintelligence; logistics resiliency both within the United States and abroad; region- and circumstance-specific integrated deterrence; existing and potential norms of behavior and escalation thresholds; advanced undersea assets and operational concepts; effective deterrence of adversarial coercive and malign activities in the gray zone; and additional considerations should include the adversary’s attempts and operations to undermine U.S. dominance in the air, space, sea, and cyber domains.
Permanent Subcommittee on National Security Innovation
2026-01-30
The Science, Technology and Innovation Board, through the establishment of the Permanent Subcommittee on National Security Innovation, is tasked to examine and advise on Department of War (DoW) innovation pathways and pipelines; emerging and disruptive technologies; commercial sector best practices in innovation strategy, management, processes, architectures, organizational behavior and design, human capital, decision-making, and scaling; and ways to leverage the U.S. innovation ecosystem in support of national security.