Troy Meink: “10, 15 years ago, some of our adversaries started to…”

“I get this all the time about everything needs to be low end, everything needs to be high end. There is no one size fits all. We have to balance that investment across all those programs. Space control. Unfortunately, 10, 15 years ago, some of our adversaries started to weaponize space and weaponize space aggressively. We stood on sideline probably too long. We didn't want to go down that path. But now we're pushing hard.” (17:25–17:32)

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