We have to open it up. It's been stale and stagnant for far too long, and it's hard to go at it. I mean, When I gave a speech on acquisition and changing how we acquire weapons and systems. I basically said to our team, all right, this is the starting gun on a war of attrition against the Pentagon bureaucracy. That's my battle is a bureaucracy entrenched in certain ways of doing things. (07:30–07:34)
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