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Daniel Driscoll: “The army is more risk averse than the Pentagon, which is…”

Featuring: Daniel Driscoll, Republican | United States Secretary of the Army | National

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Breaking Calcified Bureaucracy with Daniel P. Driscoll, Secretary of the U.S. Army | The Agile CEO

Published | Video Starts at 11:08

Is that the kind of thing you're trying to bring forth? I think if you think about, and this, this part has blown my mind, I think The army is more risk averse than the Pentagon, which is more risk averse than the federal government, which is more risk averse than the civilian sector. Like when I talk to some of these large helicopter manufacturers and they basically tell me that these, these airframes that we're flying have a million hours of civilian flight on them. (11:08–11:17)

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