The security environment is also affected by rapid technological advancements and the changing character of war.

The drive to develop new technologies is relentless, expanding to more actors with lower barriers of entry, and moving at accelerating speed.

New technologies include advanced computing, “big data” analytics, artificial intelligence, autonomy, robotics, directed energy, hypersonics, and biotechnology— the very technologies that ensure we will be able to fight and win the wars of the future