A rough rule of thumb from watching stealth aircraft development and the subsequent retrospective stories over the years: what you don't know is about 15 years ahead of what you do. It might be that things have compressed since then, and it might be that stealth was always a special case, but it wouldn't surprise me if the absolute cutting edge is still that far ahead in some areas.

This is the expectation, and the reality is that the government still uses Windows XP. Stealth tech and other military signature detection/evasion techs are probably just exceptional.

great point- I think it's strongly correlated to budget. JSOC? probably 10 years ahead due to unlimited/black budget.

The average gs-13 commuting to the Pentagon? Bottom of the barrel tech.

From your profile--do you mean hacking in the software development sense or the security sense?

in the for-fun / i'm such a shitty person i can't believe i hacked this together sense :)

the rest is... classified. but quite boring.