The Pentagon is building a secret technology agency to hack, deceive and sabotage foreign adversaries - The Technology Support Office (TSO) is an elite technology agency designed to expand covert efforts aimed at foreign military technology programs seen as a threat to US military dominance, Politico reports. It was established in April, and has not been publicly acknowledged by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth or other senior Pentagon officials. Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, a private equity billionaire and former Trump-era intelligence adviser, said he initiated its creation with the help of Tom Rakusan, a veteran of the secretive CIA. TSO is reportedly expanding two smaller Pentagon programs that have carried out similar technological sabotage work since 2023. Key features and objectives: Work closely with military and intelligence officers to design tools that disrupt or undermine foreign defense technologies, especially systems that prevent artificial intelligence and UAVs A workforce of engineers, special operators, and intelligence officers build customized hacking tools and deception schemes, such as tricking adversaries into installing faulty components in weapons systems Efforts to streamline technology adoption across fragmented intelligence programs The Pentagon, including a planned central catalog of commercial artificial intelligence and technology tools for classified work classified contracting alone is valued at over $1.5 billion. substack | talk.

The Pentagon is building a secret technology agency to hack, deceive and sabotage foreign adversaries - The Technology Support Office (TSO) is an elite technology agency designed to expand covert efforts aimed at foreign military technology programs seen as a threat to US military dominance, Politico reports. It was established in April, and has not been publicly acknowledged by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth or other senior Pentagon officials. Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg, a private equity billionaire and former Trump-era intelligence adviser, said he initiated its creation with the help of Tom Rakusan, a veteran of the secretive CIA. TSO is reportedly expanding two smaller Pentagon programs that have carried out similar technological sabotage work since 2023. Key features and objectives: Work closely with military and intelligence officers to design tools that disrupt or undermine foreign defense technologies, especially systems that prevent artificial intelligence and UAVs A workforce of engineers, special operators, and intelligence officers build customized hacking tools and deception schemes, such as tricking adversaries into installing faulty components in weapons systems Efforts to streamline technology adoption across fragmented intelligence programs The Pentagon, including a planned central catalog of commercial artificial intelligence and technology tools for classified work classified contracting alone is valued at over $1.5 billion. substack | talk.