Jen Kha
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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Returns is no longer just the size of a military.
It's the pace of innovation and reacting to cheap software-built tech that adversaries may be using, whether they're a country, criminal, or terrorist group.
And those technologies today are not being built by governments.
They're being built by the private sector.
Very much so.
What I saw happen in the years in the intelligence community and then the White House is technology moved from being a tool of diplomacy of national power to the arena of it, where the supply chain for chips was not a technology issue as much as a foundational economic and national security issue.
The supply chain for the components that go into drugs was
When used by one country to constrain or have impact on another country, it becomes a tool of national power.
A software vulnerability is now not an IT issue.
It can be a source of leverage, particularly if that vulnerability is in key parts of your power systems or your water systems.
So I saw that shift happen from tech being either an IT issue or just a tool to the central arena of both economic growth and national power.
And quite frankly, from a deterrence perspective, which is the language we talk about between countries in terms of deterring an invasion of a country, maintaining an international system of stability, deterrence is no longer just the size of a military.
I think as we see in the Strait of Hormuz, or we saw in the Red Sea, it's the pace of innovation in reacting to cheap software-built tech that adversaries may be using, whether they're a country, criminal, or a terrorist group.
And those technologies today are not being built by governments.
They're being built by the private sector, whether that's AI systems, whether that's autonomous systems, whether that's cyber defense systems.
They are being built in the private sector.
So certainly from a U.S.
perspective, ensuring that we have the relationships between government and private sector to leverage that for our own economic growth and as a force for good on the world stage, but also that our allies as well.
We build together.
We fight together.
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