Darren Farber
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 26 May
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To a certain extent, we don't really know how good these things are until we have.
The contingent environment in order to exercise the capability.
So we run exercises in the train and equip machine, but the proof in the pudding is when we actually fight.
And that's why drones have had this huge iteration because they're being used in an actual contingent environment.
And so that's why we've had so much iteration and so much improvement.
And now they will clearly be this important part of the fulcrum of war.
So these other things are going to have
to be used to really know the limit of the capability in the cat and mouse game.
But my advice for Congress is we have a $1.5 trillion designed FY27 budget.
I don't think we're going to get all that money.
But in that enormous surface area of a budget,
You can continually allocate a lot more towards the concept of risk in order to maintain technological superiority.
I think the FFRDC budget needs to be a portion needs to be repointed towards industry so we can encourage the iteration of these commercial developments to see how good they can get and exercise them in our own way to simulate war to see how good we can get them.
So we need to allocate a portion of the budget.
And it needs to be more coordinated so it can't be spread out.
We federate the research and development portion of the budget in so many different ways.
We're gonna have to take a concerted effort here for these legs of future power and we're gonna have to continually reinvest in them.
Even if we don't get a great business out of it, we may not get a war in order to test all this stuff.
Obviously, you don't want the tail to wag the dog for the purposes of just exercising the equipment.
So we need to allocate.
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