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On today's

Brandon Karp speaks with Pete Newell, founder and CEO of

BM&T. They're talking about challenges associated with

technology adoption and change in the DOD.

I am here today with Pete Newell, the CEO and founder of BMNT. And Pete, today you and I are going to be talking about defense innovation and innovation adoption, some of the core problems that we have around technology adoption but I'm glad

Really pleased to have you join us today. Thanks for coming on the podcast now. Thanks so much for the invitation. I'm looking forward to those

So if we can just start off with your net assessment at the high level, where do we stand today in terms of defense innovation, technology adoption for DOD problem sets.

I think you don't largely, I hate the word innovation.

What defense needs to be able to do is accelerate its accomplishment of certain missions.

One of the things I learned on the battlefield, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan,

was it was the speed of adaptation of technology that was really a challenge.

We were significantly challenged in how long it took us to recognize that something

had changed on the battlefield, new technology, new operating concept or something.

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