Grimm: Pentagon and UK MOD vision documents remain consistent across administrations
Matt Grimm · Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Nov 11, 2024 · at 16:49
Matt Grimm, Co-Founder and COO of defense tech company Anduril, responds to host Harry Stebbings' argument that government defense procurement strategy changes completely every four years with new administrations.
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“There's like a slight misunderstanding that like, oh, the entirety of the Pentagon turns over every four years. It's just fundamentally not true. Same here in, in, in MOD Manon Whitehall. It doesn't turn over with every administration end to end. So I think that these Longer term vision documents written by military officers and civil servants within these organizations, like, largely do hold for where they want to see the capabilities of the Navy or the Air Force go in the next five years, the next 10 years, the next decade.”
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