Pentagon acquisition chief Bill LaPlante says Ukraine has helped him understand what really matters. "What really matters is production."
"We as a country did our best to not do production," LaPlante said.
"We as a country did our best to not do production," LaPlante said.
"We all accepted that just in time was the way to go," LaPlante says.
This is why we have a valley of death because we don't want to do production.
This is why we have a valley of death because we don't want to do production.
Why can't we produce Stingers faster? The line was shutdown in 2008.
"We all did that," LaPlante says meaning DoD and Capitol Hill.
"We all did that," LaPlante says meaning DoD and Capitol Hill.
"I challenge all of you to ask about that if somebody give you a really cool liquored up story about DIU or an OTA -- ask them when it's entering production, ask them about numbers, ask about APUC, is it going to work well against China?" LaPlante says.
"Don't tell me its got AI and quantum I don't care," LaPlante says.
"American equipment is the best in the world for this broken acquisition system, LaPlante says.
"The tech bros aren't helping us too much [in Ukraine]," LaPlante says.
"The tech bros aren't helping us too much [in Ukraine]," LaPlante says.
"The sausage making is still going on" but we need to do multiyear procurements for munitions, LaPlante says.
NATO standards don't get to the point of "interchangable," LaPlante says. One of the industry executives told him that they would have to force companies because it makes firms less competitive.
On rare earths, the Chinese were thinking 30 years ago is something we should've been thinking about. "I think we're waking up to a lot of these thing and we're bringing it back," LaPlante says.
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