How to Fix Defense Procurement
Sep 19, 2024•48 min
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Episode description
Today's episode is about how the government procures military equipment. There’s a growing Washington consensus that we simply can’t buy the weapons we need, in the quantities we need, on the timelines we need.
To better understand what’s going wrong, we talked to Dr. Arun Seraphin. Seraphin just finished serving as a commissioner on a 14-person “blue ribbon commission” to investigate reforms to the way Congress and the military coordinate to buy things.
We got into:
How to design a commission to matter
Why the Pentagon’s IT doesn’t work
The value of pork
Directed energy weapons
Is the Asian pivot happening?
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