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Pete Hegseth: “J SIDS often took over 300 days to close close to one whole…”

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J SIDS was focused on defining systems requirements, staffing them through countless oversight boards and then locking them down. While threats and technologies continued to evolve to validate requirements documents, J SIDS often took over 300 days to close close to one whole year just to approve a single document. By the time it got stamped, and it probably was stamped, the threat had changed and the war fighters needs had shifted. (17:13–17:22)

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