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Pete Hegseth: “Our system cannot keep treating innovation as a decades long…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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At its core, this old approach has the hubris to assume that you can easily predict the future. That you can foresee how an invention becomes a weapon in eight easy steps. Three decades from first to discovery. Our system cannot keep treating innovation as a decades long one way march. that dramatically reduces who and what is able to run the gauntlet at our department to get the capability to the warfighter. (08:08–08:14)

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Asserts that the current system's approach to innovation is too slow and outdated.

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