Ashton Carter

There's so much coming at us.

How do we make sure this technology works for us rather than against us? And then probably the biggest thing that I think about when I hear everything is the lessons I got from President Obama and the late Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.

It's still the Secretary of Defense, not the other word.

But the part that I think about there is that our job is to fight cynicism every day.

So money was spent making that pitch to India formally, Vishnu.

2011, Pentagon clearance signal, US Undersecretary of Defense Ashton Carter publicly states that India is welcome to join the F-35 program and acquire the jet.

2012, India selects the French Rafale for its MMRCA contest, causing chatter and debate around... you know, any path towards the F-35.

2018, very quickly, Russian exit.

But my favorite example is the Pentagon.

So Ashton Carter, who was his defense secretary, once gave a speech in which he used the word innovation 67 times in 30 minutes.

It's like, that's hard to do.

I don't even think I've done that in this.

One is, why is it that the Pentagon seems to have to develop all of these organizations like Project Maven, which as you say, Bob Work created in a way as a workaround from the normal Pentagon acquisition system.

But we also have the, and you touch on some of these, the DIU unit that was set up in Silicon Valley by, I think it was late Secretary Ash Carter.

You've got the strategic capabilities office.

Now there's a strategic investment office that's trying to produce venture capital investments and see different companies at venture capital and then carry across the so-called valley of death to get into programs of record.

So money was spent making that pitch to India formally, Vishnu.

2011, Pentagon clearance signal, US Under Secretary of Defense, Ash Carter, publicly states that India is welcome to join the F-35 program and acquire the jet.

2012, India selects the French Rafale for its MMRCA contest, causing, uh, you know, a chatter and debate around, you know, very, any path towards the F-35.

Yeah.