New Pentagon science-and-innovation board arrives as administration cuts research funding

The Pentagon's new Science, Technology, and Innovation Board—a merger of the decade-old Defense Innovation Board and the 70-year-old Defense Science Board—is meant to “streamline” the department's approach to the hardest technological and scientific national-security challenges. But it comes on the heels of Trump-administration cuts that could hinder those efforts.Streamlining is a persistent target for the Pentagon. But it’s one that it has had troub