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National Defense Podcasts
AUGUST 2018
Research and Development Big Bets
In this podcast, National Defense Magazine queried federally funded research centers, service laboratories and other organizations involved in basic and applied national security research and development, a couple simple questions: What is your organization’s number one R&D “big bet?”