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Tom Kunkel

Oct 3, 2026

16:31
Tell us about the Kyle Institute, if you would, and why is it important for Southern Arizona and the whole U.S.?
16:37
The Kyle Institute for National Security, it's a 5013C nonprofit that is formally affiliated with the University of Arizona.
16:44
It was re-designated to the Kyle Institute after the great Arizona Senator John Kyle in January of this past year.
16:51
Before that, it was known as the University of Arizona Applied Research Corporation.
16:54
It stood up in 2018 to really help connect the university's research enterprise to our national security partners to help solve those problems.
17:03
Many times, academia can move quicker and faster than big industry, if you will.
17:09
And so our job is to take some of those really tough problems, whether it's an industry trying to solve something or whether it's government that needs a solution, we can help connect them to the University of Arizona and the researchers there to solve that problem.
20:03
That's a great

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