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The Pentagon Is Building a Dream Team of Tech-Savvy Soldiers

Published: July 2, 2018, 4:31 p.m.

Nicole Camarillo was touring the Army base at Fort Meade, Maryland in early 2017 when a young captain\u2014I\u2019ll call him Matt, due to the sensitivity of his position\u2014crossed her path. I\u2019ve got to talk to that kid, Camarillo remembers thinking. Just weeks before, she\u2019d seen Matt deliver a presentation on a tool he was developing to counter enemy drone strikes in the Middle East. The technology, he explained, was being developed on a \u201cshoestring budget.