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Pete Hegseth: “These large defense primes need to change, to focus on speed…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 01:18

Not one that is content to wait for money before taking urgent action. This relates to the whole industrial base and most importantly to the large primes that we do business with today. These large defense primes need to change, to focus on speed and volume and divest their own capital to get there. If we do that, the Department of War is of course big time supportive of profits. We are capitalists after all. But if they do not, those big ones will fade away. (01:18–01:26)

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Asserts that large defense contractors need to focus on speed and volume and invest their own capital.

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