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Kirk Konert

Kirk Konert

Jun 8, 2026

5:46
Help us understand what has changed and what's bringing them in.
5:51
Yeah, I think, I mean, if you take a ride back in history, right, we had an environment 25 years ago, an environment where defense was shifting to focus on a counterterrorism mission.
6:09
And what are the technologies needed to address that situation? So we had a lot of, we sort of took our foot off the pedal to some degree around advancing technologies that were important to a near peer and peer adversary.
6:26
and focused on technologies that were needed for the battlefield today.
6:31
And that, as we went through that, that allowed other adversaries to advance their technology and in some cases catch up to us.
6:40
So I think you've seen people wake up to a current environment where some adversaries have this technology that rivals us.
6:49
How do we stay ahead? And how do we invest in those areas that are critically important to ensure economic and national security? That's led to an advent of embracing from the Department of War of more commercial ways of doing business and commercial technologies that are available that they can leverage to advance their national security missions.

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13:14
Why take them public, and how did the decision to do so come about?

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