Daniel P. Driscoll
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They take these things.
They're working with Chevy.
They're making these ISVs for us.
We're putting them in the hands of soldiers.
They're cheaper.
They're faster.
They have a lower profile.
Soldiers love them.
And then what's amazing about these things, Sean, is
When we need to repair them in the Indo-Pacific or in Europe or wherever we are, for 80% of the parts, you can just go to a Chevy store and pick it up.
And so instead of relying on these manufacturers who will hold us hostage with these replacement parts that oftentimes we were talking about at a breakfast, there's parts on some of our equipment that we can't get till 2027, 2028,
And it's a part we could print for a couple of bucks.
And so what's amazing about things like the ISV, which is just the hardware side of things, is we are rethinking as an army not just what is the effectiveness of specifically what we buy, but how can we repair it in places like the Indo-Pacific.
It's a reallocation.
It's a reallocation.
So we essentiallyβ So we're innovating.
We're innovating.
We found $48 billion to start that we are going to use and are using to buy the tools of future warfare.
Damn, that's awesome.
The downside is, Sean, as you might expect, theβ