Pentagon reportedly creates Technology Support Office for foreign technology disruption
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The Facts
- The Pentagon reportedly created the Technology Support Office in April 2026.
- The office reportedly targets foreign technology programs considered threats to U.S. military superiority.
- Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg reportedly signed the memorandum creating the office.
- The Technology Support Office reportedly consolidated two classified programs operating since 2023.
- The office reportedly develops tools and methods for military and intelligence users.
- Pentagon spokesperson Jacob Bliss said the reporting was “simply not true.”
Context
What is the Technology Support Office?
It is a reportedly classified Pentagon office created to develop tools and plans to disrupt foreign military technology programs considered threats to U.S. military superiority. POLITICO International Busin… Yahoo
Who reportedly established the office?
Reporting says Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg signed the April 14 memorandum creating the office, which was placed under the Pentagon’s intelligence and security undersecretary. Raw Story International Busin… Trending Topics
What remains disputed?
A Pentagon spokesperson, Jacob Bliss, rejected the report, saying its claims were “simply not true” and that the sources were misinformed or misleading reporters. POLITICO International Busin… Yahoo
Where Left and Right agree
Left and right largely agree on this one.
- What both sides accept
- Both reads conclude the Technology Support Office's creation by internal memo demands outside scrutiny, not quiet acceptance on the Pentagon's say-so.
- Where Left and Right differ in emphasis
- The left and the right both want the memo exposed — they differ on what it proves.
How left and right read it
Secret power grows fastest when no one outside the building can see it, which is why a classified office reportedly stood up by a deputy secretary's memorandum in April 2026 — folding in two programs already running quietly since 2023 — should not be treated as an internal housekeeping matter. Covert sabotage of foreign technology is an act of war-adjacent risk taken in the public's name.
“The Pentagon has spent months quietly building an elite new tech agency to help covertly disrupt and sabotage foreign technology programs considered threats to American military superiority.” — POLITICO
Force is authorized by law, not by internal paperwork, so a deputy secretary's memorandum reportedly standing up the Technology Support Office in April 2026 — and absorbing two classified programs running since 2023 — is a claim of authority rather than an administrative detail. A spokesman's denial is not a record. Congress should obtain that memorandum and grant no authority it has not explicitly written for operations against foreign technology programs.
A deputy's memo created the office. Left and right now insist that kind of power needs outside eyes, not just internal paperwork.
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