The Diplomatic Envoy

Melanie Urena Lara Staff Writer    After a four-year hiatus, the global K-pop group BTS returned to the stage with

There is a new kind of boom sweeping Washington, D.C. — not in real estate or politics, but in defense technology. From the Pentagon’s, to Arlington, to venture-capital-funded corridors, investors, engineers, and policymakers are pouring billions into what they see as the next huge national-security frontier: artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, quantum computing, and 5G-enabled battle networks.