Daniel P. Driscoll

They did a Humvee and an ISV.

So basically, anything drive-by wire, they could do.

It's not just a waste.

I hope so.

So I guess first to Paul Merlucky, he's an amazing innovator.

He is the type of person I think that for decades we as a nation –

have let that brain and that asset not be part of the DoD.

And credit to Anduril, credit to Palantir, credit to a lot of these companies that fought through the last decade to be part of our lives because they showed us what could be.

The Army is, at a minimum in a lot of instances, 10 or 15 years behind our commercial counterparts.

And they have showed us that that doesn't have to be the case.

We're actually—

really optimistic, and Palmer's coming next week or the week after.

We have CEOs from—I believe it could be the best collection of CEOs to ever step foot in the Pentagon together, from FedEx and GM and the Googles and the Andurals.

And all of these different companies want to help the DoD and want to help the Army.

and so we're actually trying to bring them together and say hey let's start a relationship where it might not be today it might not be tomorrow but in a year or a decade we want to be getting the best of what you're all working on even if it hasn't gone to the commercials or it been released yet and so it might be chat gpt6 we the army on behalf of dod should be testing that and figuring out are there offensive or defensive capabilities

Where should we put it in the federal government if there are?

And how do we start to apply that like China does so well?

And so people like Palmer are exactly what we should be doing and aspiring to include in our decision-making process because he is such a successful version of just scrappy entrepreneurship and scrappy innovation and adding a lot of value to his customers.

So to start my reply, I went on record a couple of months ago saying, hey, I would define it as success if in the first two years of my time at this job, I put one of the primes out of business.

So as you might expect, I then met with every CEO of every prime many, many, many times.