Dino Mavrookas

And there's this government acquisition management lifecycle map that exists within the Pentagon. And if we stretch that map out on this entire wall, the individual subcomponents still would not be legible. Are you serious? There's that many steps in the process. One of the slides was, okay, now we're going to talk about rapid defense acquisition. And the next slide said 48 to 72 months.

Three years. 48 to 72 months later, The technology we're building is actually obsolete. We're going to have version 2.3.4. We're going to have the software upgraded four or five times. We're going to have better sensors out in the world that we'll be able to incorporate on our boats. The process isn't set up for this. And it's nobody's fault. It's just the evolution of technology.

Three years. 48 to 72 months later, The technology we're building is actually obsolete. We're going to have version 2.3.4. We're going to have the software upgraded four or five times. We're going to have better sensors out in the world that we'll be able to incorporate on our boats. The process isn't set up for this. And it's nobody's fault. It's just the evolution of technology.

Three years. 48 to 72 months later, The technology we're building is actually obsolete. We're going to have version 2.3.4. We're going to have the software upgraded four or five times. We're going to have better sensors out in the world that we'll be able to incorporate on our boats. The process isn't set up for this. And it's nobody's fault. It's just the evolution of technology.

It's how warfare has changed over the last 50, 75, 100 years. And we're just sitting at a point in time where there's massive technological disruption. 20 years ago, the iPhone didn't exist. Mm-hmm. Think about that. Yeah. That's not a really long time ago. And it's completely changed the world. And now nobody can even think about operating in their life without a smartphone. Yeah.

It's how warfare has changed over the last 50, 75, 100 years. And we're just sitting at a point in time where there's massive technological disruption. 20 years ago, the iPhone didn't exist. Mm-hmm. Think about that. Yeah. That's not a really long time ago. And it's completely changed the world. And now nobody can even think about operating in their life without a smartphone. Yeah.

It's how warfare has changed over the last 50, 75, 100 years. And we're just sitting at a point in time where there's massive technological disruption. 20 years ago, the iPhone didn't exist. Mm-hmm. Think about that. Yeah. That's not a really long time ago. And it's completely changed the world. And now nobody can even think about operating in their life without a smartphone. Yeah.

It's depressing. Well, I don't want to talk all doom and gloom. Because we have the innovators. We have the innovators. We have the capability. And look, I'm a firm believer in that when the United States of America collectively gets behind an idea, there's nobody in the world that can beat us. Not China, not anybody. Yeah. Right?

It's depressing. Well, I don't want to talk all doom and gloom. Because we have the innovators. We have the innovators. We have the capability. And look, I'm a firm believer in that when the United States of America collectively gets behind an idea, there's nobody in the world that can beat us. Not China, not anybody. Yeah. Right?

It's depressing. Well, I don't want to talk all doom and gloom. Because we have the innovators. We have the innovators. We have the capability. And look, I'm a firm believer in that when the United States of America collectively gets behind an idea, there's nobody in the world that can beat us. Not China, not anybody. Yeah. Right?

issue that we're facing right now is again, we're sitting at a center of technological disruption. You're coming off of a massively different environment. So we talked a little bit about World War II, Talk about all the conflict since then and kind of how the evolution of defense budget and defense spending and the things that were put in place since World War II.

issue that we're facing right now is again, we're sitting at a center of technological disruption. You're coming off of a massively different environment. So we talked a little bit about World War II, Talk about all the conflict since then and kind of how the evolution of defense budget and defense spending and the things that were put in place since World War II.

issue that we're facing right now is again, we're sitting at a center of technological disruption. You're coming off of a massively different environment. So we talked a little bit about World War II, Talk about all the conflict since then and kind of how the evolution of defense budget and defense spending and the things that were put in place since World War II.

PPE process back in 1961, cost plus contracting actually started in World War I to get the defense industrial base going. And we can talk about the impacts of all of those things. But really, you go back to 1993, and before that, you have this Cold War buildup, right? You have the buildup for the Cold War, the Reagan era, as we were at 67% of GDP as far as our military budget.

PPE process back in 1961, cost plus contracting actually started in World War I to get the defense industrial base going. And we can talk about the impacts of all of those things. But really, you go back to 1993, and before that, you have this Cold War buildup, right? You have the buildup for the Cold War, the Reagan era, as we were at 67% of GDP as far as our military budget.

PPE process back in 1961, cost plus contracting actually started in World War I to get the defense industrial base going. And we can talk about the impacts of all of those things. But really, you go back to 1993, and before that, you have this Cold War buildup, right? You have the buildup for the Cold War, the Reagan era, as we were at 67% of GDP as far as our military budget.

The Cold War ends, and you have this moment in time where everybody thought that global conflict or conflict between nation states just isn't a thing anymore, right? It's the new world, we're all friends, Cold War's over, we can communicate across the globe, all these things that never existed before.

The Cold War ends, and you have this moment in time where everybody thought that global conflict or conflict between nation states just isn't a thing anymore, right? It's the new world, we're all friends, Cold War's over, we can communicate across the globe, all these things that never existed before.

The Cold War ends, and you have this moment in time where everybody thought that global conflict or conflict between nation states just isn't a thing anymore, right? It's the new world, we're all friends, Cold War's over, we can communicate across the globe, all these things that never existed before.

So we came out, we as a country, the United States, came out of the Cold War and drastically cut our military spending. So what that did, so 24% reduction in military spending after the Cold War. 41% in naval spending after the Cold War. Wow. So you can imagine what happened to the shipbuilding programs. Wow. Not only that, the then Secretary of Defense, there's this very famous meeting they had.