Dave McCormick: “Most of the things that we use in the battlefield are young…”

“But the biggest problem I think is that it's not that we're spending too much money, it's how we're spending the money. So in other words, our defense infrastructure, our defense ecosystems become lethargic. Most of the things that we use in the battlefield are young men and women are 30 year old platforms. It hasn't kept pace with the pace of change. The procurement process is incredibly bloated and difficult. So how do we get to that? So how did we, how did we get to that?” (05:09–05:16)

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