Ed Ludlow

I think another critical point that also came up in the conversation, not only with Shyam during your interview, but during his remarks in the panel yesterday, was just the need to accelerate U.S.

procurement and make it more agile so that the U.S.

government and its allies can develop for the battlefield more quickly these drones, for instance, the low-cost drones, but other technology that could be brought to bear very quickly against an adversary.

And he liked

He looked back to World War II when there were more than 100 different airframes developed by industry, by the U.S.

industrial base.

Only a handful of them proved critical, but he made the point that, look, we have to be trying harder and really spreading a lot of this.

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