Pentagon Quietly Establishes Technology Support Office for Covert Foreign Tech Sabotage, Report Says

The Pentagon established a classified tech agency in April called the Technology Support Office (TSO) to covertly disrupt and sabotage foreign technology programs viewed as threats to US military superiority, according to a Politico report citing 12 current and former US national security officials. Neither Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth nor any other senior Pentagon official has publicly mentioned the unit since its creation in April, even as the department has publicized other military modernization efforts and policies targeting foreign adversaries. Public documentation on the TSO is nearly absent from Pentagon websites, with the agency referenced by name only in several previously unreported Defense Department historical records and internal memoranda. The specific operations of the agency remain highly classified, though the creation of the unit signals a Defense Department push to expand aggressive covert activities targeting foreign technology programs abroad.