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Daniel Driscoll: “It [USB ports in helicopters] should have existed 15, 20…”

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The Changing Character of War | Pennsylvania Defense & Innovation Summit

Published July 16, 2026 | Video Starts at 00:49

I mean, this sounds so pedantic, but it has USB ports in it and like it's just, it's something that should have existed. The old one or the new one? The new one, like, and it's like It [USB ports in helicopters] should have existed 15, 20 years ago. And we just, we required, our requirements process was so broken that we ended up with all of these outcomes that I don't think the primes would have preferred. (00:49–16:19)

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