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Derrick Van Orden: “The defense acquisition process is broken.”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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Rep. Van Orden Questions Witnesses in HASC Hearing on U.S. Navy FY26 Budget Request

Published | Video Starts at 00:19

Mr. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Secretary Nasiu, Admiral Kilby, General Smith, hey, I just want to philosophically talk about something quick and I've got some real questions. So when the empire of Japan attacked Pearl harbor, they did it with the airplanes … The defense acquisition process is broken. … of looking at things not from the 21st century at this point because there's hypersonic missiles that our adversaries have that we have no defense against and one of those singly is a ship killer. (00:19–00:26)

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Asserts that the defense acquisition process is dysfunctional.

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