Dave McCormick: “The defense sector is a huge part of Pennsylvania. 190,000…”

“At that summit, we sat down with McCormick, a West Point graduate himself, to learn more about the event and what he's hoping to accomplish. The defense sector is a huge part of Pennsylvania. 190,000 jobs, 9,000 companies. All the prime defense contractors have operations in Pennsylvania. And that's just traditional defense. That doesn't include rare earth minerals and things like that. But the world's changing really quickly.” (01:02–01:10)

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