Defense planners are actively incentivized to inflate overall project budgets
Jake Loosararian · Jake Loosararian, Gecko Robotics | All-In Summit 2024 · Sep 30, 2024 · at 15:27
Jake Loosararian, CEO of Gecko Robotics, addresses structural financial misalignments in defense procurement for missile silo modernization.
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“Those that are determining the scope and size of these modernization projects are the same ones incentivized for that amount of dollars to be as high as it can be.”
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