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Ronny Jackson: “If we don't develop an ability to bring smaller companies…”

Featuring: Ronny Jackson, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Texas, District 13

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Sustaining the Edge: Congressman Ronny Jackson on US-Israel Technology and Security

Published | Video Starts at 23:01

Because you can see that, whether if it's AI or cyber or, you know, these autonomous systems, they're changing every day. And if you can't. If you can't adapt quickly, and if we don't get it, If we don't develop an ability to bring smaller companies, you know, US Companies into play, and actually even companies that aren't US companies that are making great products and buy this stuff off the shelf and then produce it at scale, we're not going to be able to compete. No, you're right. We just can't do things in the old way. I mean, you and I have both been in the Pentagon machinery and see, it's just so unwieldy, … (23:01–23:17)

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Asserts that the U.S. needs to integrate smaller and foreign companies into its defense procurement to remain competitive.

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