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Daniel Driscoll: “We're probably a decade or more behind [China] in many…”

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 03:15

… functions in a way that sadly for the Pentagon for the last 30 or 40 years, I wouldn't even say we're off pace with the commercial sector in many areas. We're probably a decade or more behind [China] in many areas. I'm the Secretary of the Army, I have two full time tech people 30ft from my desk and I use this nipper unclassified system to send emails that are definitionally we are not that worried about people getting a hold of them because they're unclassified. (03:15–03:18)

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Asserts that the U.S. is significantly behind China in certain technological areas.

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