Erik Prince

not going to be nearly as often as it should be.

I think a lot of great ideas are going to die on the vine.

They're living on R&D money, I would argue.

The explosion of drone technology has been so pervasive in air, ground, and even maritime, lessons learned from the Ukraine war.

The real ninja move would be to push procurement decisions down to the destroyer squadron level.

Yep.

Or to the brigade level.

Yes.

Like, fine, begin with that.

Because what we have now is a super hierarchical, talk about a program of record.

That is a super kind of socialist bureaucratic hell in Washington that takes forever for them to decide.

And instead, if you give it to the brigade commander or combatant commander to say, here's money, we're entrusting these 10,000 or 50,000 American lives to your responsibility.

Oh, by the way, now you can buy their stuff that they're going to use.

Great.

The 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii is probably not going to go appear on the same battlefield that the 1st Armored Division is from Texas.

Fine.

Let them buy different stuff.

Yes, it will cause permutations of hell for resupply, but the half-life of this kind of innovation is so much faster than what we want to believe that you can buy it cheaper if you buy it at a lower level

faster versus these programmer records, which add so much cost and so much nonsense.

You need that kind of speed.