Katherine Boyle
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So I'd encourage people to kind of understand the sort of complexities of why, you know, why it matters so much that we've exported our manufacturing, that we can't uh manufacture these attritable systems as cheaply and as quickly and in terms of as as as many as say as, say, China could.
But I'd say there's there's two also there's two really important things to take from the war in Ukraine, which is that China has been supplying both sides of that war.
War.
When you look at sort of the drone warfare that is that has come out of the trenches for the last three years, you know, China is a supplier in the same way that Russia is a supplier to its own side.
But that means that their industrial bases have been built up in a way that the US industrial base hasn't built up in the past three years.
And that's something that I think a lot of our American dynamism companies are very cognizant of, that we're, we're at a disadvantage.
Because we haven't been supplying just-in-time manufacturing to to the Ukrainians in the way that say, um, you know, Chinese parts um have been.
And so that that's something we we very much have to think about when we think about wars of masses, how quickly can we can we start investing in our manufacturing base so that we can have this just-in-time and these attritable systems to compete against a country that that has been building for the last 20 years?
Mark sort of defined the the Chinese system, but he also sort of defined one of the major problems with procurement, which is that the the Department of War makes its decisions about what weapons it's going to buy on five year cycles, 10 year production cycles, right?
And it's very difficult to to correct the ship because of the way that we've structured our procurement process going back to going back to the 60s and the 70s.
So I think there is something about the, you know, if you look at the last 25 years.
Years, the second American century has been a story of American dynamism, innovation, creativity, and how on a global stage that has actually led us from three companies in the top ten to nine companies in the top ten that are tech companies.
But the Department of Defense really hasn't benefited from that.
It's the exact same companies that were that were founded in some founded in world just after World War One, solidified their dominance in World War Two, and then, you know, mergers in the nineteen
nineteen nineties post the Cold War with this view that we're post-war, we don't actually have to worry about things anymore.
So there really is sort of, I think, a a Soviet style uh procurement system that's still at work inside of the Department of War.
And there's many good people in Washington trying to change that to allow for this American dynamism to actually flow into the places that it needs to exist.
If we go back to sort of our early investments, you know, again, investments like Andorl and Shield AI, where we led the Series A in 2016.
We've been around this space for a very long time.
But those early companies, they had no other choice but to be what's known as the prime.
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