MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA: US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said on Thursday an Obama-era experimental defence outpost in Silicon Valley would grow in importance under the Trump administration and that the nation's technology entrepreneurs were vital to national defence.
Mattis paid his first official visit to the Pentagon's Defence Innovation Experimental Unit, or DIUx, in Mountain View, California, as part of a two-day outreach tour to the US technology industry intended to highlight the Pentagon's commitment to technology innovation.