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John Phelan: “We have bureaucracy after bureaucracy on top of this stuff…”

Featuring: John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy | National

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Fireside Chat with John C. Phelan

Published | Video Starts at 22:55

It's kind of like SpaceX. If you watch that video, how they made the rocket engines smaller, we don't do that. We just. We have. We have bureaucracy after bureaucracy on top of this stuff, and it's turf defending as opposed to getting out there. So the one big thing I would say, look, you don't have to worry. You have the best fighting force in the world. You're seeing that. That happened in Venezuela. (22:55–23:02)

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Asserts that there is excessive bureaucracy in the shipbuilding process, which hinders efficiency.

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