Duffey: DoD makes commercial-first tech a central acquisition transformation strategy
Honorable Duffy · Is Defense the Next Trillion-Dollar Category? | a16z American Dynamism Summit · May 19, 2026 · at 8:32
Honorable Michael Duffy is the DoD Under Secretary. He outlines defense acquisition strategy and the vulnerabilities caused by sole-source defense suppliers.
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“Commercial first is a major element of our acquisition transformation strategy, and the resilience it provides the industrial base, I mean, it's really frustrating how many, how much fragility we encounter within the traditional defense industrial base, because we have a sole supplier that's not really that profitable, that was a feeder to a design that was bespoke for the defense industry, and all of a sudden we've really created our own set of vulnerabilities here.”
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