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Pete Hegseth: “We can no longer afford to wait a decade for our legacy…”

Featuring: Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 09:41

They can read our scientific papers and copy our invention or distill our AI models, but they cannot replicate a culture like this one of opened and distributed research. We need to be blunt here. We can no longer afford to wait a decade for our legacy prime contractors to deliver the next perfect system. only to find that it's delivered years behind schedule and cost 10 times what it should. Winning requires a new playbook. Elon wrote it with his algorithm. (09:41–09:50)

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Asserts that waiting a decade for new systems from legacy contractors is no longer viable.

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