Q And he was also just at the Reagan National Defense Forum. I'm curious from the visit and then also his remarks at the forum, How do you now view this kind of like new world of war, and do you think it's being embraced in a way that wasn't before?
A The main change he's driving at is when you look at the industrial base, the ability to produce and the ability to get new capabilities out quickly is one of the most determinative aspects you can have as a defense department, right? It's a war department. And that's not where we're at, right? Like, we've had a strategy for generations which has been the decades-long technological edge is how we win, right? And the US invested more, had better engineers, and capitalized it more efficiently to, like, get to that massive technological edge. And there is still a dimension of that for sure, but increasingly the ability to produce at scale in a way you can afford, uh, the ability to, um, innovate fast on the software to rapidly adapt these capabilities, that's going to be the determinative characteristic, right? We see this in Ukraine. We kind of see this across the board. So everything he's trying to align around is this idea of how do we get capabilities out faster to the force, In a way that is affordable and effective, right? And companies that can work in that world, great. Companies that can't, you're gonna die. And I think that's a healthy view. What he's not saying, and I, and I think because the reality is, is there is a mix, is some of the stuff is going to look like autonomous systems, but it's not all going to be, right? There's still going to be a place for, you know, a…
AI assessment note: “increasingly the ability to produce at scale in a way you can afford”