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Pete Hegseth: “The defense industry financially benefits from our backwards…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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An absence of urgency, a fear of innovation and a fundamental lack of trust between the military customer and our limited, more limited than it should be. Defense industrial base. What's worse, The defense industry financially benefits from our backwards culture. Schedule overruns, huge order backlogs, and too predictable cost increases become the norm. Our military and our taxpayers need a defense industrial base that it can count on to scale with urgency in a crisis. Not one that is content to wait for money before taking urgent action. (00:43–00:57)

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Asserts that the defense industry benefits financially from inefficiencies and predictable cost increases.

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