Daniel P. Driscoll

So they're capturing a lot of that innovation, and yet they still lost $10 billion worth of equipment.

So I think the kind of amazing thing about President Trump is he just instinctively knows this stuff.

And so when you think about Golden Dome, the way I hear him talk about Golden Dome is we have got to protect the skies of the American homeland.

And so one of the ways that my brain has processed that is when you think of drones, it's kind of like this idea of like a golden mini dome where we need to, on a smaller scale, protect our skies from these threats.

And so the good news is the federal government is all over this.

The Secretary of War just signed a couple of weeks ago this GIADF, so Joint Interagency Task Force memo, that basically put the Secretary of the Army, so me and the Army, in charge of

counter drone for the Pentagon.

And then one of the benefits of being ATF acting director at the same time is we've talked to the attorney general.

We've talked to the CIA.

We're basically doing a whole of government sprint to scale our solutions that we have for this problem because we know how serious it is.

And so this is one of the threats that our country faces, but every country faces this threat.

I mean, this is going to be a threat on borders and arenas and stadiums and ports and just kind of the entire world will face this new form of violence and this new scaled way to inflict harm on fellow human beings.

all at once.

And where I am incredibly optimistic is the president saw this coming and gave the authorities to the Secretary of War, and then he's passed it down to the Army.

And we are moving out of this problem with lightning speed to scale solutions, not in the coming years, but we expect to have kind of very public displays of how we are able to defend our nation in the coming, like, 60 or 90 days.

I think people can view it as a much more nuanced topic, or people can view it as something that's performative or something that is more intended for media spectacle.

I don't think that that is what the president saw in this at all.

I don't think...

as Secretary Hegg says, saw that at all.

I think everything we've talked about today, this is just a furtherance of this very deep, legitimate belief that we have come off course as a former Department of Defense.