技术支持办公室的成立表明，国防部意在加大在海外开展一系列激进隐蔽活动的力度。
The creation of the Technology Support Office signals the Defense Department's intent to ramp up a range of aggressive covert activities abroad.
五角大楼花费数月时间悄然建立了一个新的精英技术机构，以协助暗中破坏和阻挠被视为对美国军事优势构成威胁的外国技术项目。
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.
自今年4月该机构成立以来，无论是国防部长皮特·海格塞斯还是其他任何五角大楼高级官员都未曾公开提及它——对于一个热衷于宣布旨在实现军队现代化或针对外国对手采取强硬新政策的其他重大变革的部门来说，这是一个引人注目的遗漏。
Neither Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth nor any other senior Pentagon official has publicly mentioned the agency since it was established this April — a conspicuous omission for a department that has reveled in announcing other major changes aimed at modernizing the military or adopting hard-nosed new policies against foreign adversaries.
关于技术支持办公室（内部称为TSO）的信息在五角大楼网站上几乎无处可寻，该机构的名称仅见于几份此前未被报道过的国防部历史记录和备忘录中。
Information on the Technology Support Office, or TSO as it is called internally, is nearly impossible to find on Pentagon websites, and the agency is mentioned by name only in several previously unreported Defense Department historical records and memoranda.
虽然其具体工作属于高度机密，但《政治报》采访了12名对TSO有不同程度了解的现任和前任美国国家安全官员，以了解该机构是如何诞生的、其使命的大致轮廓以及为什么其行动笼罩在保密之中。
While the specifics of its work are highly classified, POLITICO spoke with 12 current and former U.S. national security officials with varying degrees of knowledge about TSO to understand how the agency came to be, the broad contours of its mission and why its operations are shrouded in secrecy.