What Happened
Defense Department Expands Covert Activities Abroad
The Pentagon has quietly established an elite new tech agency, the Technology Support Office, to help covertly disrupt and sabotage foreign technology programs considered threats to American military superiority. The agency’s work is highly classified, but it is staffed with engineers, special operators, and intelligence officers, and its mission is to develop cutting-edge tools and strategies to disrupt adversaries’ access to critical defense technologies. The creation of TSO was first reported by POLITICO.