#USINDOPACOM recognizes the dedication, accomplishments, and commitment of Adm. John C. Aquilino to preserving peace, stability, and fostering cooperation through steadfast engagement with #FriendsPartnersAllies throughout the #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific . #FairWindsAndFollowingSeas

How can government and industry work together to nurse the public-private partnership back to health?ow.ly/mV5650RvJbI

The Hill and Valley Forum is a bipartisan discussion between lawmakers and innovators. Yesterday, I participated in a panel hosted by delian from @vardaspace, where I spoke about my efforts to leverage investments that will more rapidly deliver innovations to our warfighters.

It was a beautiful day on the hill and I couldn't resist taking another photo of this architecture.

Great AI discussion and crowd at Hill and Valley Forum today getting into tough policy issues on tech and national security.

Speed wins!

Catch up on the latest Defense Tech and Acquisition News to include:

· U.S. Air Force announces CCA downselect
· American tech in Ukraine
· Crisis of Repetition in National Security
· Jamie Dimon on U.S. - China relations
· DefenseInnovationUnit plans to spend $800M
· Will Robots Lead to More…

The Air Force selecting Anduril Industries to prototype CCA is the “NASA COTS Moment” of defense tech. Just like NASA leaning in on Elon Musk and SpaceX was the in flection point that led to the new order of commercial space we have today, this courageous decision - not just to select…

Anduril and General Atomics are moving into the next phase of the Air Force's CCA drone program. Mikayla Easley 🇺🇦🌻 has the details:
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Air Force picks Anduril, General Atomics for next round of CCA work breakingdefense.com/2024/04/air-fo…

BREAKING: The Air Force has selected Anduril Industries and General Atomics to move to the next phase of the Collaborative Combat Aircraft (loyal wingman) program that involves drones flying alongside crewed fighter planes.

Minigun-Armed Mojave Drone Now Blasting Targets At 6,000 Rounds Per Minute

This is the first time Minigun pods have been live-fired from a drone in this class and there are already plans to expand on the capability.

Story: twz.com/air/minigun-ar…

.Rep. Gallagher Press Office’s final message as Chairman of the Select Committee:

America must choose FREEDOM over FEAR.

Take a listen… 👇

Dragonfly: NASA Just Confirmed The Most Exciting Space Mission Of Your Lifetime

forbes.com/sites/jamiecar…

Join us for Nexus 24 on June 13, 2024 to hear from the following speakers. Stay tuned as we announce more keynotes and panel speakers soon!

Register today: applied.co/nexus

#nexus24 #defense #autonomy

FINDINGS RELEASED: Wall Street is KNOWINGLY shoveling millions of Americans’ life savings into the CCP's coffers for military & surveillance capabilities.

Our new report found Wall Street channeled $6.5 BILLION to 63 Chinese blacklisted companies in 2023.

See for yourself...👇

“My team loves spreadsheets. They like fax machines. Believe it or not, we have a dial-up modem and floppy disk for part of our operations. One of my counterparts in the intel community actually still uses microfiche. We’re using 1960s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, technology in 2024. So,…

Kudos to DoD CTO and HAC-D Rep. Ken Calvert for the next round of APFIT Awards.

Accelerating the Procurement and Fielding of Innovative Technologies enables DoD and industry (small/non-traditional) to cross the valley of death and deliver more capabilities faster.

Scaling up from…

'We don't build ships like we used to in America... but fortunately you can build [thousands of] small ships... you can give them autonomous abilities and you can augment our Navy, make it a few times as powerful.'

Joe Lonsdale with Maria Bartiromo on the future of the Navy and…

Signs of the apocalypse. Complete eclipse AND a major acquisitions program coming in under budget.

Our primary geopolitical risk from ADM Acquilino
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