00:02 - Chinese market the president and commanding general

00:05 - of army university major general Trevor Braden cab.

00:19 - A d Mia

00:20 - and government good morning and welcome to Carlisle barracks

00:23 - am major general travel writing camp the president

00:25 - and commanding general of army university

00:27 - and on behalf of army secretary dangerous go

00:29 - and acting chief of staff general Chris sleeve.

00:32 - Along with the soldiers civilians and families as of

00:35 - this post it's my privilege to welcome you here today.

00:39 - Before we spend two days talking about the future of American defense I would ask

00:43 - everyone to take a couple of minutes to consider

00:46 - that you are sitting on ground

00:47 - that has been in the business

00:49 - of American defence longer than the nation itself

00:53 - and seventeen fifty seven at the the height of the French and Indian war.

00:57 - The British army built a post here at Carlisle barracks.

01:00 - The cumberland valley that the barracks sits in

01:03 - was at the edge of the frontier at the time.

01:06 - British general John Forbes staged an army right here and he cut a road across the

01:10 - mountains to the forks of the Ohio

01:12 - the place we now call Pittsburgh

01:14 - and marching with Forbes was a twenty six year old Virginia colonel

01:17 - named George Washington.

01:20 - Washington first saw this valley wearing the king's colors

01:23 - but twenty years later he was at war with the king

01:25 - and this small British outpost

01:27 - that launched him against the French became a supply and manufacturing depot

01:31 - for the American revolution.

01:34 - The continental congress needed Cannon

01:36 - muskets and powder

01:38 - made somewhere the British fleet could not reach

01:41 - and so it chose this place.

01:43 - The soldiers called it Washington berg.

01:47 - Right here because of the nearby pine grove furnace

01:49 - and the fresh water from the tort creek

01:52 - they cast canon

01:53 - repaired muskets

01:54 - and made gunpowder.

01:56 - You could say

01:57 - Carlyle was the first arsenal of freedom.

02:01 - And if you walk a few hundred yards west of this building you would find the proof.

02:06 - On the other side of our post stands a limestone powder magazine

02:09 - built in seventeen seventy seven

02:11 - by hessian prisoners

02:13 - captured at Trenton.

02:14 - The Garrison Washington surprised at dawn after crossing

02:17 - the Delaware on Christmas night seventeen seventy six.

02:22 - It's the oldest standing structure united states army

02:24 - and we've kept it in very good shape.

02:27 - When the revolutionary

02:28 - when the revolution ended

02:30 - Carla stopped making weapons and started making soldiers

02:34 - in fact

02:35 - the first school of the American army

02:37 - the artillery school and laboratory was resolved in congress

02:41 - on four February seventeen seventy eight

02:43 - and established here.

02:45 - In eighteen thirty eight the army opens at school of cavalry

02:49 - and train the horsemen who rode west.

02:52 - Confederate cavalry burned the post in

02:53 - eighteen sixty three on their way to gettysburg

02:56 - but the army rebuilt it.

02:59 - In nineteen twenty

03:00 - the medical field service school stood up here

03:03 - and then medics a train went ashore in normandy

03:05 - and across the pacific.

03:08 - Then in nineteen fifty one the united states army war college arrived

03:11 - and for the last seventy five years

03:13 - Carlyle has focused on developing strategic leaders.

03:17 - Each year we educate the senior leaders of our military services

03:20 - and more than seventy allied and partner nations.

03:24 - Secretary of war Ellie root founded the college in nineteen o one with a charge that

03:27 - still governs everything we do here

03:30 - he said and I quote

03:32 - not to promote war

03:34 - but to preserve peace

03:35 - through intelligent and adequate preparation

03:38 - to repel aggression.

03:41 - I know you didn't come here for a history lesson but

03:43 - Pennsylvania story is the story of American defense

03:46 - the law wife was that held the frontier came out of the Lancaster gun

03:49 - shops

03:50 - the continental Navy was born on the Philadelphia waterfront.

03:54 - Bethlehem steel went into the holes and guns of two world wars

03:58 - and Scranton

03:59 - still forges artillery shell shows today.

04:02 - Letterkenny army depot just thirty miles down the

04:04 - road keeps the patriot missiles ready to fight tonight

04:07 - for nearly two hundred and seventy years

04:09 - when america needed to arm itself it came to Pennsylvania.

04:14 - Now the secretary of war is giving the entire department three plane objectives.

04:17 - Restore the warrior ethos

04:19 - rebuild our military and reestablish deterrence

04:22 - and the secretary of the army and chief

04:24 - have said

04:25 - our army will transform into a leaner

04:27 - more lethal force

04:29 - by adapting how we fight train

04:32 - organize

04:33 - and by equipment.

04:36 - We cannot however transform alone.

04:38 - Rebuilding the arsenal takes the factories

04:41 - the foundries

04:42 - the shipyards

04:43 - the laboratories all enabled by unmatched American ingenuity.

04:49 - It's great to see that america has come to Pennsylvania again.

04:52 - Readiness to fight and win has been manufactured here since seventeen seventy seven

04:56 - and in my humble opinion it would be difficult to choose a more appropriate place

05:00 - then Carlisle barracks.

05:02 - Thank you and again welcome and that'll be followed

05:04 - by congressman Perry who represents this district.

05:07 - Huh.

05:17 - Please welcome united states representative for Pennsylvania's tenth district Scott

05:22 - Perry.

05:24 - Though

05:29 - I'm an army guy so I gotta say it I'm a graduate of the war college so

05:33 - please indulge me it's great to be with you welcome if you're not

05:37 - from Pennsylvania welcome to Pennsylvania we'd get a

05:40 - huge.

05:42 - We do much more

05:44 - than our part

05:45 - and and

05:46 - what could be expected for the defense industrial base for our nation

05:50 - in Pennsylvania you're going to see some of that stuff out here

05:53 - and around the grounds of course you know the chinook is made here

05:56 - and we make the paladin we'd do anything from parts

05:59 - of the nuclear triad to military bolts and fasteners

06:03 - and so

06:03 - Pennsylvania is big

06:05 - bab ten thousand companies a couple hundred thousand

06:08 - people make their living working in the in

06:11 - the defense industrial base in Pennsylvania so

06:15 - this is actually thanks to senator mccormick for hosting this and putting this

06:18 - together because it's important that we acknowledge

06:21 - what we do here for the country three.

06:24 - From a political standpoint you know people always

06:27 - look at and should always look at is our policy working

06:30 - is is what we do the correct.

06:33 - Order

06:34 - on track and

06:35 - we

06:36 - Ronald Reagan I think generally turn the

06:38 - the

06:39 - the

06:39 - the phrase coined the phrase

06:41 - peace through strength but of course it goes back to the romans who said

06:45 - if you want peace

06:46 - prepare for war and I think it over the course of time at least during this

06:51 - presidency we have shown that this policy does work is working but of course

06:56 - you need the threat the credible threat

06:58 - of action

06:59 - not just having and being prepared but to use it as an if necessary

07:05 - and so it's important because we live in a dangerous world

07:08 - maybe more dangerous than ever and people can say well

07:11 - look the united states has been under threat internally

07:14 - and externally for a long period of time and that is true

07:17 - but the scale of things and the speed of which at

07:21 - which things happen today are different than ever

07:24 - before

07:25 - and so that's what I think among other things that we need to be prepared for

07:29 - and kind of let some of the things of the past go by I know it is difficult but yet

07:33 - and some of the things we need to

07:35 - to maintain.

07:38 - And I think about most of you folks in a room look

07:40 - you all loved your country this is why you're here

07:43 - and this is why we want you to be here

07:45 - and we live in a great place with a system that is unlike anything else in the world

07:51 - but we gotta be careful and we gotta be sure that we're doing things

07:55 - at the right time for the right reasons

07:58 - right

07:58 - and so

07:59 - look I'm not in a ten pilot but I'm just going to pick that one as a platform that

08:04 - I'm an admirer of that seems to do a very good job may

08:07 - just south of here in hagerstown Maryland by Fairchild

08:11 - and it does a great job at close air support and there

08:15 - the air force has been trying to get rid of it for

08:17 - a long time at some point the army wanted to have it

08:20 - people that see it in operation in action if you're on the doing business end of that

08:25 - thing you don't want to be there if you're

08:26 - servicing the target there's no better place to be

08:30 - and.

08:31 - I know we all want new things

08:33 - but if this thing works

08:35 - as well as it does and there's nothing better

08:38 - we don't need and we can't afford new things

08:41 - and so I know that

08:43 - that's always going to be a topic conversation

08:46 - because

08:47 - technology changes and what have you

08:49 - but that's where being an American and being in

08:52 - the defense industrial base and being a contractor or being

08:55 - a purveyor of these things for the u s government is important that

08:59 - we kind of look at the thing holistically is this the right thing to do

09:03 - can we do better

09:05 - or or

09:06 - does this thing meet it's

09:07 - it's criteria

09:09 - and and

09:10 - I think that's important look we have

09:12 - an unprecedented budget request in front of us right now as a us congress right

09:17 - one point five trillion dollars and you know how things go in Washington d c.

09:22 - I get and I think we get that we don't have the lines that we need right now to make

09:26 - munitions and things fast enough and so we want a one time investment to increase

09:31 - production as necessary so we can safeguard the country

09:35 - but as things go in Washington d c

09:37 - once you set the new baseline

09:39 - the next year you started that baseline and keep

09:41 - going and ladies and gentlemen we can't afford that.

09:46 - Ever since

09:47 - I can remember I mean I graduated high school

09:49 - in nineteen eighty so that's a long time ago now

09:53 - and immediately joined the army

09:55 - and ever since I can remember commanders all wearing stars and above that said

10:01 - that the national debt is a problem it is

10:03 - one of the top national security threats are

10:06 - that

10:07 - and every single year it continues to climb and continues to climb and I work

10:12 - among people they're great people

10:13 - they're wonderful colleagues

10:15 - and when it comes to defense spending

10:18 - while we all have to vote for that because we're

10:20 - offered the defense of the nation and we are

10:22 - but there's this unholy alliance that says

10:25 - if you're going to spend more money on def fence we've got to

10:28 - spend more money on these other things

10:30 - and no matter what the cost is

10:32 - that's what we're going to do

10:34 - ladies and gentlemen

10:35 - the tides

10:37 - in the political tides are changing a bit

10:39 - as you can

10:40 - you can probably see

10:42 - especially if you wore the uniform

10:44 - there's concerns among elected members that people are

10:48 - elected now to positions and run our country la run

10:51 - or municipalities

10:53 - who don't love our country

10:55 - who don't that

10:56 - I think we just need to say it that way do don't believe in the system

10:59 - that we have and so

11:01 - my message to you today is is that you have like Pennsylvania

11:05 - you have an outsized voice choice

11:07 - because of what you do and what people

11:10 - perceive you do and people respect you.

11:12 - When things are going the wrong way.

11:15 - When things need to be said

11:17 - you can't just wait on the member of congress to say you can't just wait on the

11:20 - elected official to say this is your country too

11:23 - and I know that you love the country that is why you you're here you love the sea

11:27 - custom that we have we want you to be successful we want you to be profitable

11:31 - we want you to take care of your

11:32 - employees we want you to take care of

11:35 - our country in the things that you do but if something's

11:38 - someone's doing something for the wrong reasons youtu.

11:42 - You to have a voice

11:44 - and we all need to make sure our voice we got

11:47 - we got one trip around this planet in our lifetime

11:50 - one trip so we all have to make it worth it

11:53 - and so don't just count on members in

11:56 - political office

11:58 - to make the case for the things that you know are important whether it's saving the a

12:02 - ten or not whether it's buying a new system

12:04 - whether it's scrapping what we thought was

12:06 - going to happen and moving into new technology

12:09 - you have a voice

12:10 - make sure it is for the right reasons make sure

12:13 - it is in keeping with the fact that you love

12:15 - all of your country

12:17 - and you want to do the best we all need to do better

12:19 - we all need to do more and we all have to have a voice I appreciate you coming today

12:24 - I appreciate you being in Carlisle this is a wonderful town I'm

12:28 - a center mccormick has done a great job of putting a fantastic program together

12:33 - and with that

12:34 - I want to say that senator mccormick is a I think a sixth generation Pennsylvania

12:38 - graduated from bloomsburg university

12:41 - like if you read his resume center mccormick has

12:44 - lived the American dream and bodied the American dream

12:47 - attended the

12:48 - west point the the us military academy

12:52 - got his doctorate from Princeton I believe

12:55 - went into industry

12:57 - retire

12:58 - while left the that the army as a captain

13:01 - right

13:01 - but you know

13:03 - put his did his service with the eighty second airborne in combat

13:06 - and has come back to serve service as a united states senator so

13:10 - we we have someone that understands every facet

13:14 - of what happens

13:16 - on this supply chain and in protecting our country and we are

13:20 - blessed to have him would you please

13:22 - give a warm welcome to united states senator Dave mccormick.

13:26 - That

13:42 - morning.

13:43 - Thank you congressman for that great introduction gentle brain damn thank you.

13:49 - Thank you all for being here

13:50 - what a great honor to have this terrific a bad

13:53 - habit at the army war college

13:55 - which is a place that has played such a prominent

13:59 - role in america's history and I want to

14:02 - welcome you all

14:03 - to the first ever

14:05 - Pennsylvania defense and innovation summit I really want to thank you for the

14:09 - thank you.

14:11 - Thanks Scott Perry for his service to the country

14:16 - and for that terrific entered introduction

14:20 - and for your leadership

14:22 - Pennsylvania is lucky to have you in

14:24 - congress and I

14:25 - also want to thank gentle break camp when when we came and visited

14:28 - about a year ago

14:30 - said maybe

14:30 - at some

14:31 - we'd like to do an event here

14:32 - his team was incredible and so supportive and

14:36 - I think what you're going to experience over the next two days is going to be

14:38 - absolutely fantastic in

14:40 - large part due to the

14:41 - terrific team here

14:42 - I also want to thank secretary Driscoll

14:44 - who will be here later today and here tomorrow.

14:47 - Because

14:48 - the army just got behind this and in a huge way so I want to

14:52 - want to thank all of those who allowed us to be here.

14:55 - As the night

14:56 - senator.

14:58 - In American history to graduate from west point

15:00 - I am particularly honoured to host this event

15:04 - but before we begin I want to take a moment to recognize

15:08 - the tragic passing.

15:10 - Of my friend and colleague sen Lindsey Graham.

15:13 - Now it's hard not to think of Lindsay when you're going

15:16 - to have a conference talking about a summit talking about

15:19 - peace through strength

15:20 - he was a good man and a good patriot and he poured his heart rt.

15:25 - Into fighting for a strong military

15:27 - in which he had served

15:29 - and for keeping the American people

15:31 - free and safe and will miss Lindsay's legendary wit

15:34 - his infectious passion for causes greater than themselves and so.

15:39 - My wife Dean and I want to ask you to join us

15:41 - in keeping his family and friends and staff.

15:44 - In your thoughts and prayers.

15:47 - We're also gathered.

15:49 - At a moment of reflection

15:51 - on our nation's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of independence

15:56 - and in a moment as consequential as any moment.

16:00 - In American history and maybe in human history

16:03 - for all of america's existence Pennsylvania

16:06 - for every one of those two hundred and fifty years Pennsylvania

16:10 - has been at the forefront.

16:11 - Of our nation's history

16:13 - of our nation's industry

16:15 - and of our nation's innovation

16:18 - and this legacy

16:19 - includes the Carlisle bay Eric's

16:21 - where the continental congress

16:23 - establishing an arsenal and seventeen seventy six

16:26 - as a general said and general Washington's forces.

16:30 - Were

16:31 - here and in other places and this building route hall

16:35 - honors the secretary of war

16:37 - route who founded the army war college

16:39 - the moat the

16:41 - mission was to preserve peace by intelligent

16:43 - and adequate preparation to repel aggression.

16:47 - In other words

16:48 - peace through strength.

16:50 - Peace through strength that's the mission

16:52 - and today achieving president trump's vision

16:54 - of peace through strength demands new players

16:57 - and new ways of doing business

17:00 - and what I think you're going to see over the next

17:03 - two days is Pennsylvania can help show the way

17:05 - and such radical new thinking

17:08 - has never been more needed in america's history in the history of our military.

17:13 - China

17:13 - Iran Russia north Korea

17:16 - they all share one objective.

17:19 - A weakened

17:20 - united states

17:21 - and they are actively working together toward that end.

17:26 - And meanwhile we've got big changes AI autonomous systems

17:29 - precision weapons they're transforming

17:32 - we see it on TV emanate they're transforming

17:35 - warfare in ways that were unimaginable.

17:39 - When I served in the eighty second airborne division

17:41 - thirty five years ago in operation desert storm.

17:45 - And yet our defense industry

17:47 - or defense establishment has grown lethargic.

17:51 - And our definition of national security too narrow

17:55 - we saw that during covert.

17:56 - We were vulnerable and insecure because we

17:59 - thought about national security too narrowly.

18:02 - Now president trump

18:03 - his team secretary headset

18:06 - many of the great people you're going to see over

18:07 - the next couple of days they made enormous progress.

18:10 - In cutting red tape in rewarding speed

18:14 - and inputting the war fighter first

18:16 - since January twenty twenty five more than

18:18 - three four billion dollars in defense contracts

18:21 - and investment has flowed into pence sylvain

18:24 - and last year congress delivered one hundred and fifty billion dollar plus up

18:28 - and the first trillion dollar defense budget

18:30 - but meeting this moment will require more.

18:34 - More more

18:35 - it will require industry academia and congress to step up further

18:39 - the defense industrial base extends far beyond a handful of primes

18:43 - to thousands of small and midsize manufacturers

18:47 - the minds the mills behind every weapon

18:50 - and the depot so the repair lines in the shipyards they keep them in the fight.

18:55 - Including Philadelphia's

18:56 - where a five billion dollar investment from han law

18:59 - is reviving.

19:01 - American shipbuilding.

19:03 - Our future also includes prob probably more than ever

19:06 - emerging industry such as drones and robotics

19:10 - and autonomous systems

19:11 - and Pennsylvania is nearly one thousand space suppliers.

19:16 - Along with the energy and data centers that power them.

19:19 - Leave out one piece.

19:21 - Any one piece

19:23 - in that constellation and we leave a hole

19:26 - in our defense.

19:27 - A lesson america learned during Kobe

19:29 - when we could not produce essential things semiconductors pharmaceuticals.

19:35 - Second we need a new culture

19:37 - a new culture across our defense enterprise one that takes risk.

19:41 - Moves fast learns from failure

19:43 - and from our allies

19:45 - and our adversaries alike

19:47 - one that embraces dual use technologies from the commercial world.

19:51 - For years the bureaucracy has rewarded risk aversion and process over production

19:57 - and that must change that is changing but it needs to change faster

20:01 - and finally winning will require a broader team.

20:05 - Traditional contractors technology innovators energy and AI builders

20:09 - skilled tradesmen.

20:11 - It was the train that.

20:13 - Is also going to require a whole of government effort.

20:17 - Including agencies such as commerce

20:20 - and the export import bank

20:22 - it's like a symphony

20:24 - and make any symphony each group needs to play a different part

20:27 - and the music only works

20:30 - when all the parts

20:32 - play together.

20:34 - So over the next two days we're bringing together thirteen hundred leaders.

20:38 - More than six hundred

20:40 - from the sea sweep

20:42 - over five hundred organizations

20:44 - to catalyze opportunities for Pennsylvania

20:47 - and to take the critical steps in this radical transformation of our defense

20:52 - industrial base.

20:54 - The it is required.

20:56 - Today you're going to hear some key leaders in this

20:58 - undersecretaries Emil Michael and Michael Duffy

21:00 - they'll discuss the Pentagon the Pentagon's

21:02 - acquisition transformation that they are leading.

21:05 - Followed by a conversation on the workforce.

21:08 - America needs.

21:10 - We'll end our morning programming with a keynote

21:12 - that I'm especially proud to

21:14 - announced the chairman of the joint chiefs

21:16 - central

21:17 - gen Dan Kane

21:19 - will be here.

21:20 - Over the past year general Kane has led the joint force

21:23 - through some of the most demanding operations in it's modern history.

21:27 - From operation midnight hammer to the raid that brought down maduro

21:30 - to justice

21:32 - to operation epic fury

21:34 - and here's a detail worth knowing

21:36 - the special operators who flew into Caracas that night

21:38 - on a chinook helicopter

21:40 - built in Ridley park Pennsylvania

21:42 - that's the only place that america

21:44 - makes them today.

21:47 - From there the Pennsylvania trade show opens

21:49 - as you came in you saw more than one hundred and

21:51 - thirty boost and I really want to encourage you

21:53 - to circulate among them it's an incredible display

21:56 - a beautiful showcase of all the Pennsylvania brings to our national defence

22:01 - and this afternoon the keystone meetings begin

22:03 - more than fifteen hundred

22:05 - curated one on one conversations that many of you will participate in

22:09 - connecting Pennsylvania companies with investors

22:13 - with buyers

22:14 - with Pentagon officials

22:16 - and creating opportunity opportunity for action

22:19 - opportunity for change across our commonwealth.

22:23 - Tomorrow the biggest leaders from industry investment in technology

22:26 - academia labor

22:28 - and government will join president trump

22:31 - to discuss how peace through strength will secure america's.

22:35 - Next two hundred and fifty years of prosperity.

22:39 - But we're not just here to talk.

22:41 - At last year's energy and innovation summit we announced ninety two billion dollars

22:46 - in private investment for Pennsylvania

22:48 - and this year's summit will again

22:49 - make billions of dollars worth of announcements that will create thousands of jobs

22:54 - for Pennsylvania and plant seeds

22:56 - that over time will grow

22:58 - into even stronger more diversified

23:01 - and more innovated

23:03 - more innovative defense

23:05 - industrial base.

23:07 - Now it's not my goal and you're going to feel pushed

23:09 - it's not my goal that you lead this year's summit satisfied.

23:13 - That all your questions have been answered

23:16 - in fact I hope you leave with further questions

23:18 - and decide the build those answers

23:20 - right here in Pennsylvania

23:22 - the summit is the first word

23:24 - not the last word

23:26 - on pence may his future.

23:28 - In defending america's future

23:30 - and there's no place more fitting

23:32 - no single place more fitting in america to bring this team together

23:36 - than Pennsylvania.

23:37 - Pennsylvania has the factories the innovators the energy

23:41 - the workforce that america needs.

23:43 - Are one hundred and ninety thousand traditional defense workers supply more than

23:48 - four hundred and sixty five thousand parts.

23:51 - Across twenty three hundred weapon systems

23:54 - while our universities and technology companies advance autonomous hypersonic

23:58 - undersea and space capabilities

24:00 - that are shaping

24:01 - literally shaping

24:03 - the face of modern warfare.

24:05 - This combination of legacy industry.

24:08 - Cutting edge innovation

24:10 - and skilled workers

24:12 - is the model

24:13 - our national defence must emulate.

24:17 - And let me close with this statement and I look forward to seeing

24:20 - many of you in person over the next couple of days

24:23 - but at the height of the cold war

24:25 - I remember this well.

24:26 - Ronald Reagan reminded us and I quote we have every right to dream heroic dreams.

24:34 - End of quote.

24:36 - Today our nation

24:38 - is facing once again determined adversaries.

24:41 - For too long we've lived on the fumes

24:44 - of president Reagan's military buildup.

24:47 - President trump has charted a new path

24:50 - and our task

24:51 - here over the next two days

24:53 - is to bring new players together in new ways

24:56 - and when the peace.

24:58 - That only comes

25:00 - through strength.

25:01 - Thank you for being here

25:03 - and for believing in Pennsylvania and america's future

25:06 - now let's get to work thank you.

25:08 - Three.

25:20 - Goodnight hamer

25:21 - a deliberate and precise

25:23 - strike against three Iranian nuclear facilities

25:26 - the daring us military raid to capture and extract

25:29 - Nicolas maduro integrating complex air ground and space and maritime operations for

25:34 - us forces striking over three thousand targets

25:38 - destroying forty three Iranian warships all in just a matter of days

25:42 - our fighters.

25:43 - Avoid.

25:46 - Systems

25:47 - sift through vast amounts of data in seconds

25:50 - so our readers can cut through the noise and make smarter decisions

25:53 - faster than.

25:55 - In america may maybe wrong technology is helping die.

25:58 - Strikes

25:59 - the plane uses drones to fight the much bigger and more powerful Russia.

26:03 - Right now Ukraine's winnings become the go to

26:06 - for asymmetric.

26:08 - Estimated to me.

26:11 - The combat casualties on both sides several drone manufacturers are

26:16 - off the latest and greatest

26:17 - technology for a chance to compete and win a three hundred million dollar.

26:22 - Contract

26:23 - to build thirty thousand drones for us.

26:34 - Gibb

26:36 - woke up our first panel the department of war acquisition transformation update

26:40 - with our moderator

26:41 - chancellor of the university of Pittsburgh

26:44 - John gable

26:45 - and our panel

26:45 - the honorable Michael Duffy

26:47 - undersecretary

26:48 - for acquisition and sustainment

26:50 - and the honorable Emil Michael

26:51 - under-secretary of ufo research

26:53 - and engineering.

26:55 - Three.

27:04 - Everybody and lemme join a congressman and singers welcome to the commonwealth we're

27:09 - so delighted to have all of you here

27:11 - into both of your secretaries thank you so much

27:14 - I am very honored to be joined by the honorable Michael Duffy

27:19 - who is the under-secretary of royal for acquisition in sustain route.

27:24 - Michaels the under secretary

27:25 - war for research and engineering

27:28 - and we're here today to talk about

27:30 - acquisition reform in the context of the opening remarks that you heard what it means

27:35 - for us to take what is actually a very technical topic and simply been talking about

27:41 - for a very long time

27:43 - and think about what's happened in the last eighteen months or maybe than last what's

27:48 - happening last week sometimes depending on what we're discussing

27:52 - say that we talk about national security

27:55 - at the pace of change what it takes for us to

27:57 - refining capacity make the right investments

28:01 - in

28:02 - So that we have the strength that has been described so aptly

28:06 - by the hopi speakers

28:08 - I want to talk to both of the secretaries today

28:11 - about acquisition reform in the context of the

28:13 - subjects that won't be a surprise I think to

28:15 - in the room

28:16 - resources technology

28:19 - production and supply chain

28:21 - for workforce.

28:23 - Education will produce another perhaps more traditional partners like industry

28:27 - partners that we made out of concern but before we go into a detailed themes

28:31 - I want to start robot run escape question for each of you

28:35 - and start with the secretary Duffy

28:37 - as you think about your portfolio conscientious layout for our audience what you

28:41 - think the key challenges are rumors of friction points around acquisition reform.

28:48 - Well thank you for

28:49 - the invitation to be here today thank you senator

28:51 - mccormick for organizing this great event of

28:54 - a patriots across Pennsylvania who are contributing to our

28:57 - national security through

28:59 - the defense industrial base

29:01 - and.

29:02 - I think the biggest friction point that we have

29:04 - in acquisition and acquisition transformation is

29:07 - decades of kind of entrenched culture

29:10 - that really I think is what gets in the way of our ability to.

29:14 - Achieve the speed and volume that we need to support the war fighter

29:17 - once upon a time

29:19 - deliberate

29:20 - and intentional and rigorous engineering to.

29:23 - Develop the world's

29:25 - most exquisite weapons systems was an asset for us we could.

29:29 - Dominate the the battlefield because nobody could compete with our ability to

29:34 - engineer these exc was a weapons.

29:36 - Were no longer in that

29:37 - global environment we need to be able to operate with speed

29:40 - we need to be able to understand how can you leverage the innovation

29:43 - the scale

29:45 - the research that is occurring outside the five walls of the Pentagon

29:49 - and figure out how to bring that technology that innovation

29:52 - that capability

29:53 - through our acquisition system as as

29:56 - frictionless as possible

29:58 - and delivered in the hands of the war fighter.

30:00 - Secretary Michael

30:02 - how does research team to

30:04 - define a challenge what are you happy

30:06 - with the way that a secretary definitely

30:08 - that differ.

30:11 - We

30:11 - Overlap a lot in partner awad where

30:15 - and

30:16 - we're both trying to.

30:19 - Change the culture of the place.

30:21 - From and acquisitions and

30:23 - and

30:24 - and testing and evaluation standpoint and then

30:27 - simultaneously trying to bring in the new

30:30 - mantra.

30:31 - Neo primes.

30:33 - Those companies that were that are benefiting from this explosion in

30:37 - venture capital dollars

30:39 - and are building technology from the clean sheet of paper without sort of the

30:43 - the sort of requirements driven process instead of

30:46 - using that they're using the

30:48 - common operational problem framework which

30:50 - what's the the problem we're trying to solve

30:52 - at the department

30:53 - and give us creative solutions to do that which

30:55 - is much easier for them to then be inventive

30:58 - and

30:59 - had I'd make them shorter work with us an easier way

31:02 - with simpler contracts simpler pathways to do testing.

31:06 - So that when they get

31:08 - through that gauntlet so to speak and they do that more quickly

31:11 - then they're ready for a program of record for scaling.

31:15 - On Mike's team so that's that's how we work together

31:17 - and that's some of the challenges we're trying to

31:19 - and change are trying to drive.

31:21 - That sounds

31:23 - like a cleaning

31:23 - and so one of the first barriers that.

31:27 - Robot

31:28 - automatically default to

31:30 - be hurting opus expensive

31:32 - resources and budget

31:33 - and thinking about investment I want to share some facts with that audience that

31:38 - I think some of them.

31:40 - Were familiar with and others

31:42 - so in truly.

31:43 - Pennsylvania there's already been some pretty significant

31:45 - investments we heard about a few of them already.

31:49 - Couple more a team.

31:51 - Through the defense production act in different industries across microelectronics

31:57 - machine systems batteries and others.

32:01 - Soon investment in the steel industry.

32:04 - Through ellwood quality steels to accelerate

32:08 - metal

32:09 - certification

32:10 - through the moon to Canada.

32:12 - For a powerful counter measures

32:14 - similar to

32:15 - the industrial base in Pennsylvania has made its own

32:17 - internal investment of about five point three billion

32:21 - in its own.

32:23 - Processing

32:24 - station ninety one hundred jobs have come out.

32:29 - The flex

32:30 - strategy so when we go to congress and rustique

32:35 - one point five trillion in budget can

32:37 - you walk us through what that looks like in terms of Pennsylvania industries pivoting

32:42 - to meet that moment and that strategy look at the

32:44 - long range competition and what it means for you

32:47 - as you look at transforming acquisition

32:51 - so start with your secretary defeat

32:52 - as excellent thank you.

32:54 - I think first of all I think we made great progress already at the department in

32:58 - terms of encouraging and working with and partnering with industry to create the

33:02 - industrial growth that we need and I'll just

33:05 - tell a quick story.

33:07 - You may be familiar with

33:08 - earlier this year under the leadership of deputy secretary feinberg and in

33:12 - partnership with under secretary

33:13 - Michael.

33:15 - We can't transformed how we think about doing business with

33:18 - in particular the munitions industrial base

33:20 - and

33:21 - we took a look

33:22 - at a a

33:24 - an already existing

33:25 - authority the multiyear procurement authority I'm

33:27 - sure many of you are familiar with that allows

33:30 - the department to enter into

33:32 - a contract that extends beyond a single year budget site eichel.

33:36 - In this case a five or seven year contracts

33:39 - and as a result of that we provided a certain demand signal to industry

33:43 - that then incentivized lockheed Martin ray the on and some of the new entrants

33:47 - to make significant investments

33:49 - up to the amount of twenty five billion dollars

33:52 - now that's twenty five billion dollars of

33:54 - self invests shipment from industry.

33:57 - In order to triple or quadruple the production capacity

34:01 - of our patriots and our fads and the most sought after

34:04 - weapons in the world.

34:05 - I think so that is sort of the foundation of how

34:08 - do we structure our partnership with industry

34:11 - to create the speed and volume and growth that we need

34:14 - but we do need

34:15 - resources we

34:16 - we as part of that deal we are agreed to buy.

34:19 - Seven years worth of patriots at two thousand per year

34:23 - we have to lay the foundation to pay for those things we kept

34:27 - costs low

34:28 - we asked industry to pay the.

34:30 - The.

34:31 - Cap acts in order to get to that level

34:34 - but the the global environment now demands.

34:41 - Parliament so.

34:43 - Ensure that we're preparing the war fighter

34:45 - to be able to.

34:47 - We need to ensure that we've got those resources available to

34:51 - to to follow through on those

34:53 - those purchases so following up on that secretary

34:55 - Michael when you think about from a technology standpoint

34:59 - and that we're ready and that we're

35:01 - looking at longue place so that industry knows how to pivot and where to move

35:06 - but we're also shifting as we've already heard to a certain degree from

35:11 - exquisite capabilities into a more affordable longer term mass.

35:16 - Can you talk about how historic investments like this

35:20 - intersect with your strategy.

35:22 - Yeah.

35:24 - I'd say the.

35:25 - One with the last administration left us with

35:27 - was not allowed to work with in terms of.

35:30 - What the next generation of warfare is going to look like and that's

35:34 - a I drove in an autonomy driven.

35:37 - So what we've had to do is really

35:39 - read

35:40 - we look at the portfolio and make sure that we

35:43 - we had a

35:44 - some of those investments baked into this one point five trillion

35:48 - in a material way you can't go from producing almost no drones and counter drones to

35:54 - producing millions like the Russians or

35:56 - Ukrainians are trying issue out of nowhere you

35:58 - have to rebuild the in depth defense industrial base

36:00 - you had to put a demand signal out there so companies started investing

36:04 - and then want to iterate and do that so we've we've

36:07 - launched drone dominance

36:09 - program which has these

36:11 - gates where if you succeed you get paid along the way so that companies can have

36:15 - a long term longer term view

36:17 - that they're going to get business from the department for years and years

36:20 - and many other pieces of this is the AI arsenal we call it which is to date

36:26 - we've been using AI in a very limited way a permanent war so

36:30 - we're launching all these AI initiatives

36:32 - both from on the intelligence side on the war fighting side and on the enterprise

36:36 - side and that requires compute capacity and we know him

36:39 - for for the rest of the country compute capacity as a

36:42 - as a challenge

36:43 - it's also a challenge at the department of war because we need special computing.

36:48 - Cloud cloud instances if you will

36:50 - so to those big investments where are part of the one point five trillion started

36:55 - somewhat than what is clearly the new trojan create warfare.

36:59 - Let's.

37:00 - Go a little further and and when you said AI who

37:03 - managed to go about ten minutes without anybody saying

37:06 - so here we go but

37:08 - that

37:09 - the

37:09 - lines are blurring between

37:11 - what we would have thought of as acquisition and what we would think of as innovation

37:14 - and how those

37:16 - work together and and phrases that we would.

37:20 - I

37:20 - Have

37:21 - contained

37:22 - more commercial innovation mindset like valley of death are.

37:26 - Very much part of the vocabulary in day to day parlance of

37:29 - what we hear.

37:31 - In the department so

37:32 - I'll stay with you if I could secretarial

37:34 - career that particular perspective on mess since he came.

37:38 - Out of silicon valley in English

37:40 - the dual roles that you have

37:42 - and that you were alluding to

37:44 - how did we

37:45 - get the innovation

37:47 - ecosystem how do we get through the valley of death so

37:51 - that the industrial base

37:53 - was where it's going that will have the.

37:56 - Most promising technology and mobile capability how do we

38:00 - work together to make that happen.

38:02 - So

38:02 - Took us eleven minutes to say valley of death

38:05 - so

38:05 - That.

38:06 - I alone survive that.

38:10 - So what we did is we reorganize the what we call the innovation ecosystem so.

38:17 - Inside of already right now we have the defense innovation unit

38:20 - outfit.

38:22 - This at the cybersitter program

38:24 - the office of strategic capital

38:26 - so each of those funding

38:28 - vehicles offer a different life stage in the company.

38:32 - That might be bidding

38:34 - for business photo department so

38:36 - whether they're a startup and they just have a white paper or they have a prototype or

38:40 - their test evaluation phase or they're in scaling phase

38:43 - we have a way to finance them if they're producing

38:46 - what we want

38:47 - and what's different is that all those things are aligned in one place now and then.

38:52 - We bring

38:53 - these services into each of those processes in the in the first instance so that they

38:59 - can see what where it's coming in the pipeline

39:01 - and therefore it's more easy to transition so we're like we think we've

39:05 - almost totally eliminated the valley of death

39:08 - and companies like saronic that started out

39:11 - as a diy you program that are now being used

39:13 - in theater in Iran you see companies like

39:15 - castilian that started a cybersitter program get getting

39:18 - huge orders for departments just a few years later

39:21 - so we

39:22 - were crunching

39:23 - crunching that time frame down pretty significantly.

39:26 - I want to ask one follow-up question

39:28 - I've heard you give remarks before where you talk about the individual innovator.

39:33 - I want to make sure we talk about that person too and the

39:37 - frustration of now that you've referred to before and how.

39:41 - The ecosystem that you're describing can

39:43 - maximize the individual innovators creativity.

39:56 - Frustrating whether your

39:58 - commercial business or trying to sell the

39:59 - defense department is you could get strung along

40:03 - a levee man your products great

40:05 - so and so general likes it

40:07 - this command likes it

40:08 - and

40:10 - Edward

40:10 - department of three and a half million people right so

40:13 - you too.

40:15 - Really having been an entrepreneur feel that

40:19 - you want to get true

40:20 - you don't know bs advice so.

40:23 - I try to

40:24 - do what I call fast yes as in past knows

40:26 - if this is working I want to give them to write plays fast

40:29 - if it's not I don't think it's appropriate for the

40:31 - department at this stage or because we don't have a need

40:34 - I want to tell them that and give them the

40:35 - quicker

40:36 - still go back in and rejigger whatever they're doing for for the right thing.

40:41 - Eros

40:42 - some of these companies spend years

40:44 - years working out on something that's not gonna

40:46 - work eventually and they waste a lot of money

40:49 - and that discourages more capital from coming into

40:51 - the system so that's that's the philosophy on that.

40:54 - That intersection between reframing the system and also the

40:59 - reality of the people behind the system I think is that

41:02 - an important thing for us to talk about.

41:04 - Secretary Duffy once we

41:07 - fixed the valley of death the traverse the valley of

41:08 - death I'm not even sure what the right verb is there vet

41:11 - and we've got a proven technology or we've expanded

41:15 - capacity

41:17 - where do you think we have the best opportunity to move it into production ultimately

41:21 - in the hands nz of the war fighters and the people who need it.

41:25 - Well that that's the next necessity right and there's it's

41:28 - more complex than

41:29 - I think meets the eye in terms of

41:31 - when we identify technology that

41:33 - and you know

41:35 - it meals team is either scouted or developed as

41:37 - since he oversees the labs across the.

41:40 - Department as well

41:42 - and

41:42 - generally speaking when you develop a prototype you're not think king about

41:45 - how do I store it

41:46 - how do I train the warfare to use it how do I ensure that

41:50 - it's got a lifespan that

41:52 - the.

41:53 - Unique nature of the department demands how do I make sure it's integrated

41:56 - with a whole suite of systems and so

41:59 - there is some science and and

42:02 - necessary rigor behind acquisition the key is how do we develop systems that can

42:07 - much more seamlessly insert into all of those dynamics right so

42:13 - modular open systems architecture is a big

42:15 - priority that a meals team and I are working.

42:18 - As a part of the acquisition transformation

42:19 - strategy if you have standardized interfaces

42:23 - and minimize the proprietary nature or of how

42:26 - things integrate into the system

42:28 - then I think we really remove barriers said.

42:32 - That confront

42:33 - our ability to ingest a new technology into the system

42:38 - and it also increases the level of competition which I think is essential the

42:42 - more we can get competition throughout the entire life cycle of a weapon.

42:46 - The better the f forty seven I think is a tremendous example of that it's

42:50 - prioritized open systems that prioritize digital and as result will be able to

42:55 - compete the mission systems on the most advanced

42:58 - aircraft the world has ever seen throughout the life cycle of the program

43:01 - it's a great model for how I think we should

43:04 - continue to think about achieve wing scale

43:06 - as quickly as we can.

43:08 - If I could follow up with you on that at down the road from here and when we were

43:11 - talking about this this morning is the letterkenny army depot

43:15 - and.

43:16 - Premier patriot missile recertification facility.

43:21 - We're balancing

43:22 - that at

43:23 - the the strengths and and opportunities that

43:25 - you just described between exquisite resources

43:29 - and low cost

43:31 - affordable mass can you

43:32 - go a little further in that direction and give us some insight there

43:35 - yeah I mean there's no there's no

43:38 - competing against the superiority of america in weapons.

43:42 - I recently have.

43:44 - I took the foreign military sales portfolio

43:49 - as part of my.

43:51 - Responsibilities and

43:52 - it's clear that everyone across the world wants our weapons systems they're the best

43:58 - but they're costly

43:59 - and they're low volume

44:00 - and we're in an environment that also demands an.

44:04 - Affair active cost kill ratios ineffective and in large volumes

44:08 - and so we're not it's not one or the other it's it's a blend of both and so

44:13 - meals really stepped into leading

44:16 - an effort as we've been thinking about how do we ramp the exquisite

44:20 - patriots that standard missile

44:22 - amram.

44:24 - All the kind of staple weapons that we've been able

44:26 - to rely on to maintain battlefield superiority.

44:29 - We've.

44:30 - Meals done a tremendous job of partnering with those new entrants who

44:33 - can offer a low cost alternatives maybe not quite as capable

44:36 - but plenty capable especially when matched with those exquisite weapons

44:41 - to be able to.

44:42 - Really be a force multiplier.

44:44 - Why don't you tell us more about that secretary American

44:46 - yeah a big.

44:48 - It's not it's not a binary.

44:51 - Choice in fact.

44:53 - The exquisite.

44:56 - Systems we have will be much more powerful if they're accompanied by

45:00 - mass or triple cheap

45:02 - and things like the collaborative combat aircraft or you know if you have a carrier

45:07 - that has drones growing in front of it or missile or drone defense

45:10 - so

45:11 - The idea

45:12 - is to get something that's

45:13 - designed for manufacturing from these new companies so

45:16 - from the day it's designed it's designed to be skilled

45:19 - produced

45:20 - which makes it cheap by bike than by definition cheaper using

45:25 - commercial off the shelf products but with modular

45:28 - architectures and open systems that we can connect them with software

45:32 - and then have those collaborate with

45:34 - the exquisite system since we're making a huge push on that.

45:38 - I think we're raskin for some or something like fifty billion dollars and this one one

45:42 - point five trillion to invest fully in that.

45:45 - Because you need the industrial base has supported a demand signal and supported the

45:49 - technologies there these companies can produce it

45:52 - but they have to

45:53 - they have to do it at scale

45:55 - never do it in combination with the systems we have

45:58 - with all the tactics

45:59 - techniques and procedures so that's what we're focused on.

46:03 - Let's talk about another

46:04 - specific example low cost containerized missiles if we could.

46:09 - I'm staying with you secretary Michael from the.

46:13 - Research and engineering the technological perspective

46:16 - can you talk about how

46:17 - this

46:18 - particular capacity

46:20 - is an example of this intersection and

46:23 - and

46:24 - with partnerships with industry with intersecting between.

46:29 - Exquisite and affordable and where that it sits as an illustrative example.

46:35 - Yeah so we.

46:36 - Resigned fought for deals with a new entrance for low cost containerize for low cost

46:42 - cruise missiles effectively something costs

46:45 - usually about two million dollars

46:47 - and we're looking to get it about a half million

46:49 - so one fourth the cost and we wanted to be able to scale production

46:53 - so.

46:55 - Given our our business model now which is no rmd no facilitation

46:59 - but you get a long term contract we offer

47:01 - these companies a contract if they deliver so

47:04 - shared risk model

47:05 - not on the government paying costs plus

47:08 - if we pay you

47:10 - a fixed price when you deliver

47:12 - are some

47:13 - benefits for delivering early and some

47:15 - some penalties for delivering late

47:17 - but that aligns our our incentives

47:20 - and then they have to produce at scale to get get the real money and

47:25 - and we gave them the operational probably need this missile to go this far and and

47:30 - perform this mission

47:31 - without

47:32 - twenty pages of requirements come back to us so that you could do oh

47:35 - and then there are doing fly offs every month for the next few months those who win

47:40 - get good contracts those who don't kind of

47:42 - can go back and try again so it's

47:44 - it's sort of like you do in the business world

47:46 - you hold as solicitation

47:48 - you tell him which want they give you proposals

47:51 - they get it you go to test

47:53 - they when they get money.

47:54 - That is the waiter worked

47:56 - you know in general.

47:57 - So I think I'm pretty excited about that program

48:00 - yet secretary Duffy what lessons do you think there

48:01 - are from this particular program across the strategy.

48:06 - I think that we can.

48:09 - You know have faith in a new entrance right I mean I think and this is something that

48:13 - I think we are working within the culture the Pentagon is

48:16 - how do we get

48:18 - comfortable with

48:19 - the new paradigm of doing business a new set of actors

48:22 - we're still going to have the old that

48:24 - kind of reliable

48:25 - traditional defense primes and their entire supply chains I know men any.

48:30 - Are are fed by businesses here in Pennsylvania

48:34 - and

48:34 - in one of the benefits I think by the way of these new

48:37 - structures is that we intend and actually mandate that

48:40 - that.

48:42 - Certainty of demand all the benefits of.

48:45 - Those long term contracts flow all the way through the supply chain

48:49 - but I think you know

48:50 - a couple of things I think from the new contracts

48:53 - the new the new entrance

48:55 - there's a real focus

48:57 - from our conversations on

48:58 - designing for manufacturability

49:01 - and too often we have these exquisite weapons

49:03 - that have exquisite components that were designed

49:06 - for a single purpose

49:07 - and those businesses may decide it's no longer financially viable or they may just.

49:12 - Move into other industries

49:14 - that really creates a challenge for us

49:16 - I think what I've really buff

49:18 - think is a is a is a great step forward is

49:21 - this focus from some of these new entrance and

49:23 - how do I source within my supply chain

49:26 - from commercial sources so that we have resilience in our supply chain

49:29 - and we're not single-threaded with a fragile industrial base

49:33 - I hope that we can take some of the

49:35 - lessons learned and some of the examples of the new

49:38 - entrance who are building these new

49:41 - prototypes and and hopefully.

49:43 - Scale those into production

49:44 - and apply some of that those techniques to

49:47 - across our entire portfolio.

49:50 - So

49:50 - The next thing I want to ask about is completely

49:52 - self serving so let me just say that out loud

49:54 - at Pennsylvania is home to some extraordinary research universities.

49:58 - Alongside some of that most incredible

50:01 - manufacturing bases

50:03 - so the challenge in our community has never been about generating ideas it's always

50:07 - been about capability whether it's then needs that you are responsible for

50:11 - or across a variety of other aspects that

50:15 - can directly or indirectly affect national security.

50:19 - We could spend the remainder of our time making that list but

50:22 - in the interest of time.

50:24 - Secretary Duffy at you've talked about.

50:28 - Things the future being forged on the factory

50:30 - floor and what it means to develop a workforce.

50:34 - Can you talk to

50:36 - the audience about what that means for you and in that department and

50:40 - go responsible for.

50:42 - Well.

50:43 - None of this works without a workforce and a

50:45 - strong defense industrial workforce.

50:49 - Emil and I had a chance earlier this year

50:51 - to go on the arsenal freedom tour with the secretary

50:54 - and it's clearly a

50:55 - priority for the secretary and I think

50:58 - correctly so

50:59 - to ensure that we

51:00 - recognize and sell celebrate our defense industrial base

51:04 - as

51:05 - You know tradesmen who

51:07 - are absolutely essential to ensuring that we do I mean we

51:11 - we can't do anything without industry

51:13 - and industry can't do anything without the workforce and so ensuring that we not only

51:18 - recognize and celebrate but also focus on

51:21 - how do we continue to reply wish that workforce we recently launched

51:24 - a great initiative at the department in partnership with Mike rowe from

51:28 - dirty jobs who's really going to help us.

51:31 - Champion

51:33 - the.

51:34 - Industrial base as a noble profession like something that you know

51:38 - when you make a choice to be a part of

51:41 - this defense industrial base you are a part of

51:43 - the national security of the united states and

51:46 - and and

51:47 - and and and making sure that

51:49 - it's kind of not just training but

51:51 - how do we recognize the cultural

51:54 - value of our our workforce and so.

51:57 - My cotton ozzy and his team is doing great work to lead that.

52:01 - That effort

52:02 - but we still have to have the training we still have to ensure that we're

52:05 - adequately compensating our workforce to ensure that we have the retention

52:09 - you know more than any other I think service indus dri

52:12 - the.

52:14 - Time required to build from

52:16 - you know apprentice to journeyman

52:18 - in in the defense industrial base.

52:21 - Reinforces the need for us to ensure that we're really.

52:25 - Recognizing and respecting and and and.

52:28 - Intentionally.

52:30 - Developing our our workforce.

52:33 - Secretary Michael

52:35 - as

52:35 - We think about the.

52:38 - Educational landscape for developing a workforce whether it's

52:42 - through the trades through our partnerships with technical

52:46 - schools or up into the research university

52:49 - space at bachelor's level or doctoral level.

52:53 - What do you I think the plug-in or add-on is where the contribution

52:58 - to the ecosystem that research universities have the greatest opportunity to offer.

53:04 - We have some great partnerships with

53:07 - universities particularly in Pennsylvania.

53:10 - Cmu

53:12 - and pitt have been

53:13 - excellent partners for us he amused focus on robotics and AI has been.

53:18 - Really tremendous and I'm hoping to

53:20 - to

53:21 - Get more of that support in the coming years as this autonomous

53:25 - AI revolution happens.

53:27 - And

53:29 - what we're getting from a lot of universities all over the mid west in particular

53:34 - is a passion for defense a passion for the war fighter wanting to be

53:38 - part of the solution here

53:40 - and

53:41 - and it's it's been terribly exciting right we have wind tunnels in Indiana university

53:45 - we have all kinds of assets that were b building

53:48 - and double downing

53:49 - on these research universities

53:52 - who have an ethic of of being patriotic and have

53:55 - one to help the war fighter where we don't see that in every place

53:59 - so we're like okay where we do find out we're going to

54:01 - double down and we're going to work harder with them

54:03 - and it's it's already paying off on on some of the projects we're working on.

54:07 - Of course I'm very glad to hear that I know my

54:09 - colleagues here are very glad to hear that too

54:12 - and I think that

54:14 - when we talk about that transformation in acquisition

54:17 - we can get very technical this subject lends itself to

54:21 - very specific

54:22 - attributes along

54:24 - the from the idea to the capacity.

54:29 - As you all have been in the mix in this

54:32 - evolution at very rapid pace

54:34 - I'd be very interested to hear from each of you

54:38 - on what you think has been the biggest

54:40 - change in the last eighteen months with the advent of a

54:43 - variety of executive orders with a change in focus on budget

54:47 - the way you've read reframed your teams internally that you've described to us

54:52 - what do you think is working best as we try to get towards an actually

54:56 - transformative mindset on acquisition and

54:59 - whoever would like to go first.

55:02 - I have a

55:02 - start

55:03 - well first of all I think the biggest change is the speed of change

55:06 - like this constantly what I hear across the board is

55:09 - never seen this much rapid change.

55:11 - In government

55:13 - and and you know that's really a

55:15 - tribute to our leadership president trump

55:17 - secretary headset dep secretary feinberg

55:19 - all have this very clear mandate for change

55:23 - I even I like to talk about how we have

55:26 - at least in the acquisition side we have

55:28 - agreement across both sides of the aisle

55:30 - both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue boasts sides of the potomac.

55:33 - The Pentagon the white house the congress and

55:36 - bipartisan agreement

55:37 - on the need for change in this realm and so

55:40 - that creates an environment where I think there's.

55:44 - Not only a license but a mandate for us to move fast.

55:47 - I think you know some.

55:48 - A lot of the great work that

55:50 - a meal is doing with

55:52 - br bringing AI to the workforce I mean

55:54 - before we started with

55:56 - like forty thousand unique users for artificial

55:58 - intelligence now we have over a million in the department

56:01 - and that's just at the front end of what we can really do across the department

56:06 - and I do think also kind of

56:08 - having this

56:09 - much more direct engaged

56:12 - partnership with industry

56:13 - and

56:14 - what industry tells us is

56:16 - we've never had this level this Cadence of engagement with the department leadership

56:21 - deputy secretary feinberg myself a meal

56:23 - and the only way for us to get this done is communication

56:26 - you just you said it right there is a very complex.

56:30 - Environment that we're working in and the only way for us to

56:33 - kind of level set what expectations are and move fast is

56:36 - if we have that level of engagement and and and

56:40 - cooperation

56:41 - and you know

56:42 - both sides play their natural part

56:44 - of that doesn't mean there aren't there ek difficult

56:47 - conversations there are but we're having the conversation

56:50 - and I think as a result of that we're moving things forward very quickly

56:53 - how about your secretary.

56:55 - I would add that.

56:57 - We

56:58 - Most things are downstream of culture in a in a bureaucracy this big but.

57:04 - The president's secretary deputy like micro saying

57:08 - extreme bias for action you know that bias for action means every day we wake up

57:14 - the beer there might be a new executive order or secretary memo but either way

57:18 - we're talking to some ceo we're running we're walking the

57:22 - halls of some manufacturing plant were talking to unit our cities.

57:25 - Or the labs were out there tests on the test ranges

57:29 - were constantly moving the ball forward every day

57:32 - and we do it together I mean the teamwork.

57:35 - Typically you don't see that in the apartment of this thing people

57:38 - are a little turf oriented or whatever

57:41 - Mike and I talk everyday my colleagues and I talk to every day we're trying to figure

57:45 - out how to best handle the volume of workload so that when we leave this department

57:49 - we've left at ten times better than when we found out not

57:52 - just incrementally better so we're really trying to be

57:55 - a step function change in what we're doing and doing them

57:59 - with urgency and speed and we may make some mistakes but

58:03 - it's a lot of fun working in this crude

58:05 - at that at that pace.

58:07 - So in this audience in this room and and

58:10 - also watching on the stream

58:12 - are the partners that you've been describing that you're engaged with

58:16 - so as fast as things have moved in as much progress have you made

58:20 - there are still points of friction and challenges to overcome

58:23 - what would you want your partners

58:25 - know about how they can be advocates for you

58:28 - I'll start with you secretary Michael for what you're trying to accomplish how can

58:32 - this set of stakeholders help you

58:35 - overcome.

58:37 - While the the

58:39 - this budget ask which is separated into two pieces is the base budget

58:43 - reconciliation peace which is the one time.

58:47 - Thing.

58:49 - Which will allow us to do these

58:51 - larger investments in munitions where we were left with sort of.

58:56 - An industrial base that wasn't producing as much as we needed we hadn't had an AI

59:00 - arsenal we hadn't had a drone and unmanned strategy.

59:04 - Sorta get all those things kick started we need that

59:07 - we need that extra.

59:09 - Budget but along with that comes

59:12 - you're a fair request for discipline in the department so we've gone through found

59:18 - fifty hundred billion dollars in cuts are constantly trying

59:21 - to cut unnecessary things because the country can't afford

59:24 - infinite debt

59:25 - and we want to be efficient so that

59:28 - we're we're

59:29 - being

59:30 - you know.

59:31 - Considerate of the taxpayer

59:33 - but we do have to

59:34 - ensure we maintain our military superiority because

59:37 - our economic prosperity is downstream of that.

59:40 - So that's what I'd say if anyone

59:42 - could help with that talk to your senator

59:43 - or congressman we'd be pruitt appreciate it.

59:47 - Well I think

59:48 - you know this is

59:50 - working in the department has been you know as term tremendous honor

59:53 - and

59:54 - one of the.

59:56 - Largest command and control style organizations are the

59:58 - 240 largest in command control style organization in the world

01:00 - 04.661 but I think what we're coming to realize is that the only

01:00 - 07.660 way to drive the change and to achieve pace that we need

01:00 - 09.080 is

01:00 - 11.031 Delegation and flexibility

01:00 - 11.920 and

01:00 - 14.770 we're trying to do that in the reforms that we

01:00 - 16.150 are introducing

01:00 - 17.620 within the acquisition workforce

01:00 - 21.941 we recently transitioned the portfolio or excuse me the program executive officer of

01:00 - 26.230 the peo to the portfolio acquisition executive pa he

01:00 - 29.325 and not just a name change but how do we empower

01:00 - 31.900 that pe as the singular accountable official

01:00 - 36.850 to deliver the capability we need on the schedule and ensure they're managing costs

01:00 - 40.390 and giving them the tools including accountable workforce

01:00 - 43.490 that's ansible to them and their goals.

01:00 - 46.960 I think that's also true in the industrial base right we watch

01:00 - 48.898 interest in empower

01:00 - 51.324 the industrial base to do what we can't do within

01:00 - 53.368 the department which is innovative it's sort of

01:00 - 54.838 our greatest strength

01:00 - 56.428 geo economically is

01:00 - 00.578 our innovation our economic might our.

01:01 - 03.008 Ingenuity and so.

01:01 - 06.238 You know the only way to achieve this level of change I think is

01:01 - 07.228 for

01:01 - 11.278 us to I'll be self directive to recognize we are all aligned to a common goal

01:01 - 14.488 of course we need to provide some parameters of what we need

01:01 - 18.778 but we want industry to be as engaged as developing the solution

01:01 - 23.518 as they can it will just multiply our ability to achieve the level of

01:01 - 26.398 of speed and volume we need for the war fighter.

01:01 - 27.888 I think you have

01:01 - 28.708 pretty

01:01 - 32.428 obvious evidence of engagement simply by the participation today so

01:01 - 37.088 if I were to follow up on that and secretary Duffy.

01:01 - 37.558 If

01:01 - 38.948 This works

01:01 - 40.658 and we're looking

01:01 - 44.018 one year down the road three or five years sort of.

01:01 - 47.038 Quick relatively quick mid and long

01:01 - 50.828 what would you you see in place or evolving.

01:01 - 55.992 Well I think the when when I think about how do I measure the effect of

01:01 - 59.678 my job every day it's it's it's a little hard to quantify

01:01 - 00.328 but

01:02 - 01.448 what is the

01:02 - 04.268 confidence of our men and women uniform

01:02 - 08.428 and how much do we plant doubt in our adversary right so

01:02 - 12.988 how to use you know is this particular way weapon system or

01:02 - 14.488 if we grow this part of the

01:02 - 15.638 industrial base

01:02 - 18.688 come together as a whole in terms of building the

01:02 - 22.558 military and economic might of the united states and how does that

01:02 - 23.428 sort of

01:02 - 24.788 ensure that

01:02 - 26.578 the goal is to win without fighting

01:02 - 30.538 how do we kind of ensure that our adversaries think twice about

01:02 - 32.518 whether or not they want to engage

01:02 - 34.628 with us and and

01:02 - 35.948 and so.

01:02 - 37.751 What does that look like three to five years

01:02 - 39.898 from now I think it's a robust industrial base

01:02 - 42.098 I think the industrial base.

01:02 - 43.268 Is a

01:02 - 45.688 strategic national asset that

01:02 - 49.318 our adversaries certainly are aware of how strong we are

01:02 - 53.248 and focusing on developing that to a p place where it can provide

01:02 - 56.428 the joint force of the future and replenish that joint force

01:02 - 59.938 at the pace that we need I think canon in and of itself

01:03 - 03.248 be the deterrent that we need to ensure that we're.

01:03 - 05.278 Protecting us interests and

01:03 - 08.038 maintaining battlefield superiority for war fighter

01:03 - 12.808 do you see ongoing organizational changes like the one you did ascribed

01:03 - 16.898 moving to a portfolio mindset or different demand signals.

01:03 - 21.868 Absolutely portfolio is is really the focus of how we're trying to transform

01:03 - 24.248 not only to ensure that we're.

01:03 - 25.498 Equipping

01:03 - 26.848 an executive like the

01:03 - 30.898 port portfolio acquisition executive with the tools that they need in order to

01:03 - 32.638 make it seamless

01:03 - 32.968 the

01:03 - 35.498 process is possible to identify

01:03 - 36.178 a need

01:03 - 39.898 to acquire that and to deliver it into the hands of the war fighter but

01:03 - 45.478 how do we establish what we need and so we're trying to look at it from a port folio

01:03 - 46.658 perspective.

01:03 - 49.858 If we take a kill chain and we analyze

01:03 - 52.558 what tasks are required in order to

01:03 - 54.428 ensure that we.

01:03 - 55.628 Defeat enemy

01:03 - 56.768 air defense radar

01:03 - 00.148 what are the systems that we need in order to ensure that each

01:04 - 01.858 increment of that kill chain

01:04 - 04.438 is effective and do we have enough of those and so

01:04 - 06.388 that's really driving internally

01:04 - 10.228 how do we define where we have needs and the joint force and how we

01:04 - 13.228 communicate that need to industry so they can help us

01:04 - 14.848 in the most cost effective

01:04 - 15.538 and

01:04 - 19.268 rapid way provide that capability to the war fighter.

01:04 - 21.718 U s secretary Michael how bout you

01:04 - 23.648 short mid long.

01:04 - 25.972 You know what

01:04 - 27.808 I took this job over

01:04 - 28.958 you're.

01:04 - 31.298 You're in a few months ago

01:04 - 35.038 it felt like a loosen or are already in my world

01:04 - 38.188 we're running a peacetime science fair

01:04 - 39.788 so.

01:04 - 43.558 And we're we're we're definitely in a mode of

01:04 - 46.119 where we have to have a wartime footing given

01:04 - 48.868 the conflicts in the world and given sort of a

01:04 - 51.864 version of what was handed to us and the the

01:04 - 55.318 dramatic changes that are happening in the technology landscape so

01:04 - 56.918 trying to

01:04 - 57.388 get

01:04 - 00.698 in a year I think we've done a good job.

01:05 - 02.548 Everything it's like a Lucy

01:05 - 04.386 or time science for now I have to.

01:05 - 09.398 Be a wartime sort of production lab if you will.

01:05 - 11.928 In a year and then by the end of this I think

01:05 - 14.698 that if all the partners we have with irony

01:05 - 17.388 are really thinking about what they're doing then

01:05 - 19.528 how it translates sort of war fighter that maybe

01:05 - 20.458 a few years away

01:05 - 21.928 five years away from DARPA

01:05 - 22.948 you know we do

01:05 - 24.808 invest in long term

01:05 - 27.698 ideas but with urgency

01:05 - 31.708 and we're trying to push things out as as fast as we can

01:05 - 32.698 and we have a

01:05 - 38.858 robust testing environment then I'll feel like we're recruit recreating what we had.

01:05 - 40.678 For two which was like a

01:05 - 43.288 very capable research and engineering

01:05 - 47.618 and development pipeline to serve the war fighter at a time of need.

01:05 - 52.168 That actually is a great segue unplanned into my last question which is

01:05 - 54.268 when we think about and

01:05 - 55.838 what comes

01:05 - 57.186 at as as

01:05 - 04.418 a consequence of a very robust re reframe of an innovation ecosystem a new strategy

01:06 - 05.708 on the

01:06 - 08.528 components and total pipeline around acquisition

01:06 - 10.238 there are.

01:06 - 13.269 Other benefits other industrial benefits other commercial

01:06 - 16.678 benefits there can be how science benefits that

01:06 - 18.568 a successful

01:06 - 19.438 at

01:06 - 22.958 Meeting at this moment and protecting our national security.

01:06 - 24.358 If it

01:06 - 28.654 traverses the valley of death if it actually fundamentally that was twice it took me

01:06 - 31.408 another half an hour so do I I dunno if I get points for that but

01:06 - 32.338 that

01:06 - 36.638 is likely to create a broader innovation ecosystem period

01:06 - 39.178 and that's great for not only everybody

01:06 - 41.818 engaged in this conversation but everybody

01:06 - 42.478 and

01:06 - 46.052 so I wonder from your points of view how those of us who

01:06 - 49.418 are your partners the department itself your partners

01:06 - 50.038 at

01:06 - 52.768 The university is obviously whether that be

01:06 - 54.128 from the

01:06 - 56.587 at up from the trades all the way through

01:06 - 00.418 doctoral studies how you see us thinking ahead to

01:07 - 02.438 that after as well.

01:07 - 06.861 I think that there's no doubt that the defense

01:07 - 09.928 industrial base and the industrial base overlap

01:07 - 10.988 significantly

01:07 - 13.838 you can think about batter so many similar batteries

01:07 - 17.674 that we've outsourced to a large degree to try and when we read them etiquette those

01:07 - 19.978 that should have domestic benefits and

01:07 - 21.188 defense benefits

01:07 - 25.204 and the research engineering certainly the procurement and all the things that that

01:07 - 28.468 we do to be able to produce those things those countries would benefit both

01:07 - 31.798 both parts of the economy AI is going to benefit both partially

01:07 - 36.308 these economies so robotics will benefit both so I do think.

01:07 - 39.508 It's sort of self evident that if we succeed

01:07 - 39.988 the

01:07 - 41.108 that's going to give the

01:07 - 43.078 the nation more industrial capacity

01:07 - 44.728 less reliance on

01:07 - 47.408 an adversarial supply chains

01:07 - 52.198 and we'll just be more self sufficient in the areas we need to be and that's been

01:07 - 53.308 one of the

01:07 - 56.218 sort of legacy problems we've been trying to solve

01:07 - 58.408 pretty urgently for twenty years now

01:07 - 59.368 but we're finally

01:07 - 04.718 for example closed five five or six critical minerals deals along with Mike's team

01:08 - 08.338 to read to ensure that we have friendly supply chains on those and those things where

01:08 - 11.288 people only thinking about those a few years ago at all.

01:08 - 15.124 At one the senator gave his opening remarks secretary deaf he talked about some of

01:08 - 17.468 the lessons from covert in this space.

01:08 - 18.668 How does this

01:08 - 20.858 look from your vantage point.

01:08 - 23.498 Well I think the.

01:08 - 27.642 It's it's a recognition of the fragility of

01:08 - 30.958 our defense industrial base and I think that

01:08 - 34.268 you know we're still in many ways recovering from.

01:08 - 36.499 The impacts of that on the industrial base but I

01:08 - 39.998 think it actually reinforces the need you know to.

01:08 - 41.878 Meals answer your last question

01:08 - 46.208 you know we're intentional about our desire to pay pursue commercial solutions

01:08 - 48.568 and I'll refer back to my comment about

01:08 - 52.388 designing for manufacturability it's really designing for resilience

01:08 - 57.448 and ensuring that we have I think if we can draw from commercial supply chains more so

01:08 - 00.428 we'll have a much more resilient industrial base

01:09 - 03.585 and you know just from a cost standpoint from a speed

01:09 - 07.538 standpoint the department of def of war is no longer.

01:09 - 09.638 The.

01:09 - 10.958 Market.

01:09 - 13.678 Influence or at once was

01:09 - 14.638 that's a

01:09 - 17.628 testament to the great progress we've made in the commercial industry

01:09 - 19.768 and so I think now we're learning how do we

01:09 - 21.898 do a better job of leveraging

01:09 - 24.268 what's going on outside of our control

01:09 - 24.838 and

01:09 - 28.238 introducing that as a capability for the war fighter.

01:09 - 33.368 I want to thank both of our secretaries for their leadership for.

01:09 - 37.348 That transformation and acquisition and and beyond that

01:09 - 39.912 that they've described and I wish them godspeed

01:09 - 43.268 in their endeavor so thank you very much you.

01:09 - 50.908 Three.

01:09 - 55.768 He's welcome

01:09 - 58.168 our next panel workforce development

01:09 - 00.148 keeping pace with our moderator

01:10 - 01.978 president of temple university

01:10 - 03.158 John fry

01:10 - 04.048 and our panel

01:10 - 05.968 Pennsylvania attorney general

01:10 - 07.088 Dave Sunday

01:10 - 09.988 president and ceo of dunmore corporation

01:10 - 11.138 Ron court

01:10 - 14.188 assistant sacra Terry of war for the industrial base

01:10 - 15.538 Michael cat on ozzy

01:10 - 19.918 and president and ceo of the national defense industrial association

01:10 - 22.418 the honorable David norquist.

01:10 - 45.538 Good morning everyone it's great to be here I want to thank center mccormick and his

01:10 - 50.218 great team for bringing us all together for what I know are going to be two days of

01:10 - 54.278 wonderful conversations and presentations we have a great panel.

01:10 - 58.538 Here today and maybe I'll just take a minute to sort of set this up.

01:10 - 01.534 Into the yard the q and a so.

01:11 - 06.630 The surge in defense spending and the growth of related sectors like maritime or

01:11 - 10.301 boosting demand for a wide range of occupations and

01:11 - 13.794 skills and requiring new types of partnerships between

01:11 - 17.764 industrial and tech companies on one hand and universities

01:11 - 20.994 community colleges does and skills providers on the other

01:11 - 22.114 and so

01:11 - 23.194 when I think a bit from

01:11 - 25.585 a temple university perspective we're attempting

01:11 - 28.104 to respond to this demand on multiple fronts

01:11 - 31.149 we're working to develop talent partnership agreements

01:11 - 33.964 with major companies and defense installations

01:11 - 37.734 ensuring and this is really important that the degrees that we offer

01:11 - 39.054 actually match

01:11 - 41.514 the needs that are coming from business

01:11 - 45.154 and then finding new ways to partner with universities

01:11 - 49.674 and high schools of oak Tex career technical education programs

01:11 - 51.624 to create meaningful talented

01:11 - 53.104 talent pipelines

01:11 - 56.494 to ensure that these these students who are graduating

01:11 - 59.934 have careers where there's real economic mobility and they can

01:12 - 04.350 really do something for our society so that's that's what we're talking about here

01:12 - 06.354 are these these talent pipelines and

01:12 - 09.724 how we meet the needs of of the companies and the.

01:12 - 11.664 Industries that we'll be talking about today

01:12 - 13.174 so

01:12 - 17.454 What I want to do is start with assistant secretary cotton ozzie

01:12 - 18.474 thanks for

01:12 - 20.584 thanks for being with us too today

01:12 - 21.694 and.

01:12 - 26.814 You've said that scaling ambitions are illusory without access

01:12 - 28.474 to raw materials.

01:12 - 32.244 I guess the same could be said for skilled labor so

01:12 - 36.414 how does industrial base policy measure workforce as a component

01:12 - 38.254 of surge capacity.

01:12 - 41.580 Thank you for the question and it's an honor to be here thank you to center mccormick

01:12 - 44.424 and the army war college and all the distinguished guests here for

01:12 - 46.904 the invitation to talk about something that I think is at

01:12 - 49.134 the crux of everything that we're doing today

01:12 - 50.844 with an industrial base which is

01:12 - 54.534 trying to go ahead and rebuild the fundamentals that includes raw materials

01:12 - 56.424 but really starts at the workforce

01:12 - 59.674 the wizards behind the warriors the folks the machinists

01:12 - 01.104 the the shipwrights

01:13 - 02.464 the welders.

01:13 - 05.604 Pipefitters that actually make everything that goes into it

01:13 - 07.104 that we the war fighter needs

01:13 - 09.474 we often times default to thinking about

01:13 - 11.574 autonomy or hypersonic sora

01:13 - 14.424 artificial intelligence because it's it's the sexy new thing

01:13 - 16.734 we've got to still build things that have metal

01:13 - 18.714 can't fire AI at the enemy

01:13 - 19.554 quite yet

01:13 - 22.744 and so I think we still need to go ahead and talk about.

01:13 - 24.871 The the the fundamentals of the workforces as

01:13 - 27.174 a key to resilience for the future so for us

01:13 - 29.075 in my role here I've been honored as the

01:13 - 31.284 assistant secretary for industrial base policy

01:13 - 33.264 to inherit a team in a program

01:13 - 37.044 that has already running forty different workforce programs across the country

01:13 - 39.924 that's the anchor for build freedom which honor old Duffy mentioned

01:13 - 42.894 build freedom that us as our anchor flagship platform

01:13 - 43.524 for

01:13 - 45.894 promoting skilled trades across the country

01:13 - 48.054 we think is a critical national imperative

01:13 - 50.304 that we galvanize the next generation

01:13 - 54.504 your middle school kids today are going to be building submarines in ten years

01:13 - 57.924 we need to get them excited in elementary school and middle school

01:13 - 59.134 and in high school

01:13 - 00.454 and thinking about these career

01:14 - 01.104 these trades and

01:14 - 02.844 we've got a great partner in micro

01:14 - 05.394 micro works where we've given ten million dollars

01:14 - 08.484 to start launched this campaign but it's not just about PR

01:14 - 10.884 it's about actually getting out into the field

01:14 - 12.414 talking to industry

01:14 - 13.564 talking to kids

01:14 - 15.684 talking to families because mom and dad

01:14 - 18.384 need to understand that their kid is succeeding

01:14 - 19.764 even if they went to college

01:14 - 21.827 and they were want their kid to go out and go to

01:14 - 24.144 college initially because we sort of talk about that

01:14 - 26.495 but a lot of what we're trying to do is say hey it's

01:14 - 28.644 okay it's good skilled trades you can make real money

01:14 - 30.894 it's real it's an incredible opportunity

01:14 - 32.214 you have a stable job

01:14 - 36.084 credible demand a lot of times AI proof jobs which we're really excited about

01:14 - 38.177 and it may not be the path for everyone to go ahead

01:14 - 40.314 and do that and that's fine it may not be the path

01:14 - 43.914 to serve on active duty in the military or to serve as a government employee

01:14 - 45.906 but there is a chance to serve the the defense

01:14 - 47.694 industrial base as a skilled trades person

01:14 - 50.064 and we are super excited to be promoting this

01:14 - 52.404 as we grow from forty workforce programs

01:14 - 54.414 to seventy all across the country

01:14 - 56.724 and we're looking for you to come to us and tell us

01:14 - 58.524 what you need what skills

01:14 - 59.674 what locations

01:14 - 00.844 wherein how do we drive

01:15 - 03.570 we're thrilled to be partnering with groups like India and others

01:15 - 05.064 in time and David's team

01:15 - 07.194 to talk about how to get the message out

01:15 - 09.624 and build this next wave of excitement about

01:15 - 11.824 these skilled trades for the future.

01:15 - 13.134 So that's

01:15 - 15.058 that's also a cultural challenge I mean we've

01:15 - 17.424 been we've been telling kids for generations that

01:15 - 19.344 go to college go to college and now

01:15 - 21.370 you're making the pitch to say well that's

01:15 - 23.544 one option but there are other options as well

01:15 - 26.634 how what what's your experience so far making that pitch

01:15 - 27.994 so I think it's

01:15 - 31.590 actually incredible that the success of the workforce programs we've had from

01:15 - 34.074 Honolulu community college where we established the first

01:15 - 34.944 machine

01:15 - 37.794 skills trade program since the nineteen seventies

01:15 - 38.544 to

01:15 - 42.024 Danville Virginia where we're doing welding for the maritime industrial base

01:15 - 45.264 from the Gulf coast up to Michigan to new England

01:15 - 46.534 to Seattle

01:15 - 50.874 we are working in incredible array of partners local state industry partners

01:15 - 52.254 who tell us every day

01:15 - 55.044 there's a huge need for effort and focus on this

01:15 - 57.804 but there's also a huge demand second I think that's where the

01:15 - 00.114 the great opportunities for us to say I don't

01:16 - 03.054 we will stimulate more demand with additional spending

01:16 - 04.254 I'm not worried about that

01:16 - 06.054 but there's already demand

01:16 - 09.294 and the differences we've got to connect the demand signal with the kids

01:16 - 11.344 who are prepared to go ahead and make that leap

01:16 - 13.704 they need to see and understand how image that can make

01:16 - 16.200 they need to see and understand how much fun they can have

01:16 - 19.464 they need to go ahead and be tied into think about the things that they can build

01:16 - 21.684 there's nothing like seeing a ship in a shipyard

01:16 - 24.964 there's nothing like seeing an assembly line if you haven't visited a factory

01:16 - 26.994 a real factory that bends metal

01:16 - 28.234 please do so

01:16 - 29.904 call us we'll get you a tour

01:16 - 32.724 I think it's one of the greatest honors I get to have as

01:16 - 34.914 to to actually go where work is being done

01:16 - 38.604 not paperwork not power point wonderful tools though they are

01:16 - 41.724 it's really quite amazing to see the fruit of that labor in the field

01:16 - 43.614 and Pennsylvania is an incredible state

01:16 - 44.994 it is freedom's forge

01:16 - 46.644 and it is that the anchor

01:16 - 50.574 we are committed to many programs are a project manager of the ge program here

01:16 - 52.144 is focused on

01:16 - 53.664 building skills trades

01:16 - 55.104 we actually had three students

01:16 - 58.320 from Pennsylvania who actually won one hundred thousand dollar scholarship

01:16 - 00.354 offer through our project mfg

01:17 - 02.484 we've had incredible array of support here

01:17 - 05.994 and we're excited about how we can continue to drive the message locally

01:17 - 07.914 that these jobs are open now

01:17 - 09.924 there's only going to be more for the future

01:17 - 10.554 and we're

01:17 - 13.264 the the response has been absolutely incredible.

01:17 - 17.124 Spent spend a little more time on Pennsylvania so what are the things that you think

01:17 - 22.170 are opportunities for us to to sort of go deeper become more successful like a sort

01:17 - 25.174 of an example of the sort of national success

01:17 - 25.644 so

01:17 - 29.670 We actually pick Pennsylvania is one of our three anchor states for launching build

01:17 - 31.854 freedom because of the criticality of this.

01:17 - 34.594 State to the defense it's economy

01:17 - 35.334 nationally

01:17 - 38.604 and that the interests of the leadership of the state attorney general

01:17 - 39.684 senators

01:17 - 40.464 congress

01:17 - 44.550 in supporting the growth of industry and senator mccormick talked about the energy

01:17 - 46.554 growth there were investing many of the

01:17 - 49.560 during the last panel they talked about a bunch of the investments here

01:17 - 51.324 that have gone on pira fork flares

01:17 - 52.534 on metal

01:17 - 55.254 into minerals are coming from industrial base policy because

01:17 - 57.354 we see incredible potential in the state

01:17 - 00.084 and we're also excited we're hosting our debates

01:18 - 01.494 accelerator conference

01:18 - 05.124 in Philadelphia August twenty fifth twenty seventh please sign up to join us

01:18 - 07.944 to promote not just our message around build freedom

01:18 - 09.834 the broader industrial base but also as

01:18 - 11.664 Pennsylvania is one of the anchor

01:18 - 13.824 locations for us to invest for the future

01:18 - 15.924 and so it's a critical part of our plan for

01:18 - 19.129 growing more stable and resilient industrial base for

01:18 - 22.864 the future and maybe maybe one more I think in previous.

01:18 - 27.138 Work you've you've cited eight hundred thousand open

01:18 - 30.324 defense manufacturing jobs today a projected four million

01:18 - 32.454 jobs shortfall over the next

01:18 - 33.904 decade

01:18 - 36.598 so you could do a lot of skills campaigns but

01:18 - 39.144 that's a that's a lot of ground to make up

01:18 - 42.504 how much of the shortfall do you expect to close with people

01:18 - 45.564 vs automation and what does that mean for how

01:18 - 48.964 we're authorizing workforce development programs.

01:18 - 51.204 So it's a fantastic question

01:18 - 53.334 this is a national challenge

01:18 - 55.464 and we didn't get in this situation overnight

01:18 - 58.650 we started coming out of the cold war with the defense industrial base that was

01:18 - 00.354 robust and the best in the world and his

01:19 - 04.284 honorable Duffy and honorable Michaels disgust we still make incredible weapons

01:19 - 08.544 but we've hollowed out our industrial base as a nation since nineteen ninety two

01:19 - 11.544 we made a lot of awesome chins about how the economy will fold

01:19 - 14.674 the end of history we were going to live in this just-in-time

01:19 - 17.424 service dominated world which was promoted by a lot of

01:19 - 19.568 thoughtful people who thought it was the right man and

01:19 - 21.324 we could debate the the decisions there but

01:19 - 23.514 that it was promoted by a lot of people

01:19 - 24.694 and it has failed

01:19 - 26.814 just in time means ready to break

01:19 - 27.964 that's all it means

01:19 - 31.014 and we are in a situation where we've reckoned nice that it's breaking

01:19 - 32.544 and so for us

01:19 - 36.114 we want to set the ship forward and I think under the president's leadership

01:19 - 38.574 under the leadership of the administration

01:19 - 40.234 acquisition transformation

01:19 - 43.074 we have an opportunity to set the course for the future it says

01:19 - 46.074 these are major challenges we're going to invest in it

01:19 - 48.197 we're not going to shy away from the difficulty

01:19 - 49.944 in doing it or the scale of the challenge

01:19 - 50.454 I think

01:19 - 55.014 you laid out exactly what millions of jobs and whether it's two or four it's a lot

01:19 - 57.624 we need to start now and digging away

01:19 - 01.114 I don't think I have a metric for how many more.

01:20 - 03.404 People will get in over the next two or three

01:20 - 05.604 years we're going to work on that here shortly

01:20 - 06.114 and

01:20 - 08.378 I think we can expect to see hundreds of

01:20 - 10.854 thousands of new positions come ing available

01:20 - 14.094 and hundreds of thousands of new connections into those jobs

01:20 - 16.764 the real measure is going to be over the course of a decade

01:20 - 19.374 if the subsequent administrations and congresses

01:20 - 21.984 continue to believe that this is a national imperative

01:20 - 24.204 we want to make the case that it must be

01:20 - 26.354 that is going to come from us to some degree now

01:20 - 28.734 but we need to set the course of that the country

01:20 - 31.374 actually gets on board and stuff sports this long but

01:20 - 33.144 long after I'm departed this job

01:20 - 34.344 thank you so much

01:20 - 35.524 thank you for that

01:20 - 36.144 so

01:20 - 40.074 Let's start at general Sunday so you've argued that safe communities and

01:20 - 41.884 strong workforces

01:20 - 43.464 go hand in hand and

01:20 - 47.484 that a job provides identity and self worth and that of course

01:20 - 50.064 among other things helps to reduce crime so

01:20 - 54.114 if if you would just sort of flip that around for this audience what's the case

01:20 - 57.024 that investments in defense manufacturing jobs

01:20 - 58.344 in places like

01:20 - 02.464 York or johns town we're we're all from north Philadelphia

01:21 - 04.284 are themselves and affect

01:21 - 06.184 public safety investments.

01:21 - 08.893 So first of all it's an honor to be here and again

01:21 - 10.704 thank you r center mccormick for putting this

01:21 - 13.081 this is and this is amazing as to thank everyone

01:21 - 16.248 that's come to Pennsylvania to be a part of this.

01:21 - 20.498 I'm a career prosecutor before that I worked at u p s and before that

01:21 - 21.998 I was in the Navy

01:21 - 24.587 and through the course of my career there's

01:21 - 27.308 one data point that that never ceased to exist

01:21 - 29.048 and that is when people work

01:21 - 31.938 magic happens and communities are safer.

01:21 - 33.698 It is absolutely

01:21 - 35.208 unequivocal

01:21 - 37.538 that if communities aren't safe nothing else matters

01:21 - 38.958 and.

01:21 - 42.378 In my time being in a courtroom prosecuting cases

01:21 - 45.038 through that I realized that we have to do something more

01:21 - 47.138 and I really landed on jobs

01:21 - 49.231 and so I've worked with manufacturers

01:21 - 51.698 associations to try to find ways to hire Pete will

01:21 - 54.188 that are reentering society after they come out of prison

01:21 - 58.628 and we worked with the manufacturer association energy and the Pennsylvania chamber

01:21 - 01.748 to identify employers that were willing to take a second look

01:22 - 02.708 at someone

01:22 - 04.748 but even going back in my life I mean

01:22 - 06.038 you know I was a

01:22 - 08.142 I was a bit of a knucklehead when I was a kid and

01:22 - 10.508 I joined the Navy when I was eighteen so I'm sorry

01:22 - 11.228 for

01:22 - 13.378 put that out there and it was the greatest

01:22 - 14.688 absolute

01:22 - 16.418 wonderful decision of my life

01:22 - 17.658 next to marrying my wife

01:22 - 20.528 I was eighteen I swab decks and ship paint

01:22 - 24.108 and I learned the value of hard work discipline

01:22 - 27.068 I realize that again you have the power within yourself

01:22 - 29.198 to to change outcomes

01:22 - 32.228 and never forgot it and that's what carried through for me

01:22 - 33.188 and

01:22 - 36.428 and when we are able to see people become employed

01:22 - 39.828 they could take care of their family they pay taxes

01:22 - 45.428 crime goes down it's just better for society and Pennsylvania has such a long history

01:22 - 46.968 of manufacturing

01:22 - 49.478 a long history of hard working

01:22 - 50.378 and

01:22 - 51.588 hard working

01:22 - 52.538 so citizens

01:22 - 55.868 and so I think that it is this is absolutely crucial

01:22 - 59.708 and the I mean I was a district attorney in York county

01:22 - 02.198 where we had a large presence by ba systems

01:23 - 04.928 which I was always grateful for and we saw firsthand

01:23 - 07.448 the positive impact on our communities by having

01:23 - 09.458 such amazing jobs and employers

01:23 - 12.043 and so thank you for all of you that part dissipate

01:23 - 14.228 in that and for those that are thinking about it

01:23 - 15.898 Pennsylvania would love to have you.

01:23 - 17.538 Go Navy.

01:23 - 20.928 So

01:23 - 25.244 You mentioned that that you joined the Navy and that experience changed your life and

01:23 - 28.394 thanks for your service so Pennsylvania has one of the

01:23 - 31.718 largest veteran populations in the united states yet many

01:23 - 33.978 transition service members.

01:23 - 35.408 Leave the commonwealth

01:23 - 37.728 you know what what can we do

01:23 - 38.738 to Maine attain

01:23 - 43.418 and retain that talent here in our shipyards and our arsenals and

01:23 - 44.828 other places

01:23 - 46.008 so.

01:23 - 48.188 The first thing I want to say is this that

01:23 - 51.878 when I got home from the Navy in nineteen ninety nine.

01:23 - 54.188 I started a community college

01:23 - 55.148 and

01:23 - 57.527 Harrisburg area community college welcomed me with

01:23 - 59.858 open arms I came literally right off of deployment

01:24 - 04.308 to into a classroom and they had such an important.

01:24 - 07.178 System in place to support returning veterans

01:24 - 08.588 they made me feel welcome

01:24 - 11.828 I mean a lot of returning veterans don't know how to study

01:24 - 13.772 I mean you know you study for other things in the

01:24 - 15.996 military but you may not be able to sit in the classroom

01:24 - 17.348 and so they worked

01:24 - 18.488 with me through that

01:24 - 22.658 and they really believed in me and through that work with the community college

01:24 - 24.518 I then got a job at u p s

01:24 - 27.578 and it was the greatest thing for me in the world I'll never forget

01:24 - 29.928 a lot of the people I work with a GPS.

01:24 - 31.508 Were all returning veterans

01:24 - 34.668 and so we had sort of that pipeline

01:24 - 35.378 of

01:24 - 37.238 Having success in education

01:24 - 38.978 walking straight into to

01:24 - 41.688 do a good paying job.

01:24 - 42.878 Building roots

01:24 - 46.298 and also living in a place that was affordable and a place that.

01:24 - 48.398 You loved and so I think that

01:24 - 51.578 we're dealing with this exact same issue with regard to law enforcement

01:24 - 53.738 so we just finished a report that

01:24 - 54.948 last week

01:24 - 57.638 on the fact that we can't get people to

01:24 - 59.688 remain in Pennsylvania in law enforcement

01:25 - 01.928 and so one of the findings from that

01:25 - 06.158 was not only obviously pay is important but it's more of the

01:25 - 08.938 butt community feeling community well being believing

01:25 - 11.198 you're part of something bigger than yourself

01:25 - 14.168 and also having that supportive framework in place

01:25 - 16.298 was the absolute key

01:25 - 20.228 and so all of that is my way of saying that I think it is crucial

01:25 - 21.798 that we redefine

01:25 - 25.358 to the extent that it's critical for specific to the industries

01:25 - 27.128 what education looks like

01:25 - 30.158 and it doesn't have to look like the same thing for everyone

01:25 - 32.828 you know I started like I said a community college

01:25 - 35.708 and worked at GPS at night for eight years

01:25 - 37.128 and.

01:25 - 39.136 I'd never thought I'd be a lawyer I ended up being

01:25 - 41.378 becoming an attorney and now I'm the attorney general so

01:25 - 43.028 I think that

01:25 - 45.968 there's a lot that happened in between by the way between those.

01:25 - 47.448 That make that clear

01:25 - 48.158 a lot of things

01:25 - 48.488 did

01:25 - 49.818 and so

01:25 - 53.558 and so with that being said we need to redefine what that education looks like

01:25 - 56.138 welcome these veterans when they come home

01:25 - 58.478 and and also I would love to see

01:25 - 01.838 ways for them to just have internships and apprenticeships

01:26 - 03.888 and just get into those jobs.

01:26 - 06.588 That's great thank you thank you so much what a great story

01:26 - 09.908 David how bout over over to you so in April

01:26 - 15.734 India published it's annual report called vital signs which has consistently rated

01:26 - 18.758 expanding the workforce among the greatest challenges

01:26 - 21.128 facing the defense industrial base so

01:26 - 25.388 what does the latest data tell us and if congress could change

01:26 - 28.808 one policy to move that grade what should it be

01:26 - 32.738 to thank you first of all thank you all for being here and for those of you who are

01:26 - 35.555 our companies in this thank you for investing your time

01:26 - 37.868 and your resources into the defense industrial base

01:26 - 40.928 md i-series it's surveys it's membership annually

01:26 - 42.788 we have about fifteen hundred

01:26 - 45.738 companies if you have a booth downstairs you're probably one of them

01:26 - 47.558 and we asked the question about

01:26 - 49.521 with the department's request to surge

01:26 - 51.728 capacity or to have a resilient industrial base

01:26 - 54.038 what are the opportunities what are the obstacles

01:26 - 58.118 workforce consistently shows up in fact in the top five reasons

01:26 - 00.938 to have challenges or so urging your capacity

01:27 - 04.518 three of them relate to workforce on a regular databases

01:27 - 07.148 recruiting and retaining skilled trades craft

01:27 - 09.431 fifty six percent of our members said that that

01:27 - 11.648 was a difficult thing same with with clearances

01:27 - 13.298 so the topic we're on

01:27 - 18.098 is very relevant to what the issues are that our membership is seeing in this area

01:27 - 21.758 one of the things that that India AI has as championed and

01:27 - 23.448 has been.

01:27 - 28.394 We used to have a pipeline from service in the military to working in the defense

01:27 - 29.778 industrial base during the cold war

01:27 - 33.128 and in the post cold war drought on a lot of those programs pivoted

01:27 - 36.638 sending you to civilian sector sending you to colleges and so

01:27 - 41.084 we really that is important to restore that pipeline there's a number of things first

01:27 - 42.668 of all people coming out of the military

01:27 - 43.208 start with

01:27 - 44.408 mostly have clearances

01:27 - 47.978 they have strong work ethics they understand the equipment they're dealing with

01:27 - 50.678 and many of them already have many of the trade skills

01:27 - 52.734 and technical skills you're looking for because

01:27 - 54.608 they did that when they were in their job

01:27 - 56.318 that's why I was very excited

01:27 - 59.618 when the secretary talked about and they willed out recently build freedom

01:27 - 02.168 because they it is very much focused on

01:28 - 05.798 we orienting their programs back to restoring that pipeline

01:28 - 07.908 I think two hundred thousand.

01:28 - 11.594 People depart the military it's a very large organization people stay for different

01:28 - 13.598 lengths of time that's a lot of people coming out

01:28 - 15.398 looking for a career path so

01:28 - 18.158 that program I think really responds to

01:28 - 21.858 one of the most important things which is restore eyeing that pipeline.

01:28 - 23.348 Thank you for that so

01:28 - 26.421 recruiting the next generation then maybe

01:28 - 29.478 the the hardest problem defense manufacturing

01:28 - 33.818 competes with commercial tech for engineers and with every other trade

01:28 - 35.238 or if every other

01:28 - 38.226 trade from machinists and welders so what is actually

01:28 - 40.808 working to make the defense industrial careers is

01:28 - 43.298 attractive to young people and then

01:28 - 44.628 what do we learn

01:28 - 46.758 from all of that in Pennsylvania.

01:28 - 48.886 Sure so I think there's three things that really

01:28 - 50.708 matter when you're trying to recruit people

01:28 - 52.058 the first is the mission

01:28 - 54.784 people want to work in jobs and careers where they can

01:28 - 57.548 look back and say they made a difference and building

01:28 - 59.978 equipment to ensure our nation's security

01:29 - 03.398 making sure that the men and women of our armed forces are never in a fair fight

01:29 - 05.948 because you gave them the best technology possible

01:29 - 09.368 that is a noble calling that is a noble cause people can

01:29 - 11.358 get invested that and besides.

01:29 - 14.744 The really impressive things when you think about the technology you're dealing with

01:29 - 17.768 when you're looking at a submarine and you know you are part of making that

01:29 - 21.138 possible or that high and missile or those other technologies

01:29 - 22.748 it's a very impressive task

01:29 - 24.048 the second one is

01:29 - 28.208 they need to be able to see that there is a stable career path

01:29 - 29.538 that has

01:29 - 32.948 a competitive compensation right these are the sort of things that help them

01:29 - 34.238 see themselves

01:29 - 36.938 in that career for an extended period of time

01:29 - 38.468 so in the first session

01:29 - 40.958 secretary Duffy was up here talking about

01:29 - 43.748 multiyear contracts for munitions would

01:29 - 45.998 that actually has a very significant effect

01:29 - 48.068 on workforce we used to have the

01:29 - 50.378 the munitions purchased one year at a time

01:29 - 52.649 well done good job we may buy some next year

01:29 - 55.058 we may not and every year you sort of waited

01:29 - 57.108 to see if they are going to buy more of that

01:29 - 57.878 munition

01:29 - 00.038 that's very tough for the company

01:30 - 02.787 it's also very tough for the suppliers and everybody's

01:30 - 05.828 workforce so when you have a seven year contract that says

01:30 - 08.271 this munition is going to be bought for seven years

01:30 - 10.455 and by the time you get to the end you already know the

01:30 - 13.388 the next munition is going to come off that line for seven years

01:30 - 16.053 the workforce can see themselves in that factory and

01:30 - 18.878 say I can work here I can see the path I can see the job

01:30 - 20.648 but it's not just that factory

01:30 - 23.061 every so supplier who makes a part for that

01:30 - 25.005 munition for that suddenly there's something else

01:30 - 27.430 now knows that they've got a seven year production

01:30 - 31.028 run and they can turn to their workforce and say

01:30 - 33.878 this is a real pipeline so that second part is key

01:30 - 36.278 the third and this is really important is

01:30 - 39.554 you have to connect these communities over thousand of our members are small

01:30 - 41.228 businesses they don't have the reach

01:30 - 44.858 of the sight of some of the larger companies to know where the workforce

01:30 - 47.078 is coming from and if you're coming out of

01:30 - 49.328 high school or you're coming out of another job

01:30 - 53.504 knowing where the openings are is a challenge and so I will tip my hat to the Navy

01:30 - 56.118 which I guess is playing to the stage here apparently.

01:30 - 57.638 The Navy has done a lot

01:30 - 00.368 in this area there are eight cities they are working with

01:31 - 02.648 two of them are in pencil Anya which shows you

01:31 - 04.748 the wool of Pennsylvania is both Pittsburgh and

01:31 - 07.148 Philadelphia and those programs help

01:31 - 10.178 create a pipeline particularly out of high schools and others

01:31 - 12.818 and match people up help able than industry

01:31 - 14.408 how do I find workers

01:31 - 17.438 help people who are coming out I was at one of these events

01:31 - 20.318 and there was a young man who had just gotten out of high school

01:31 - 22.048 and he was very excited he said I felt.

01:31 - 22.796 A

01:31 - 26.036 Kid looking to go play football at a college because

01:31 - 27.566 I had three offers

01:31 - 31.016 of companies who wanted me to start the day I walked out of high school

01:31 - 32.876 before I graduated because

01:31 - 35.786 he had done welding and shop and the school he went with

01:31 - 39.416 really cultivated that skills so they knew he had what they needed to

01:31 - 42.956 that type of pipeline that helps people find the comms Chinese

01:31 - 44.726 and the companies find the people

01:31 - 46.172 those are the three that great

01:31 - 47.196 you need the mission

01:31 - 49.476 neither cant the stable compensation

01:31 - 52.826 and you need the connection those three things we've seen really make a difference

01:31 - 54.176 David that's great thank you

01:31 - 57.522 so I'm wrong let's let's go over to you so you've been

01:31 - 00.686 a vocal advocate for industry four point oh and next

01:32 - 02.526 gen manufacturing.

01:32 - 03.566 So

01:32 - 09.396 Does automation solve the workforce shortage for small and midsize defense suppliers

01:32 - 13.016 or does it just sort of change the skills that you need and

01:32 - 14.406 what's the sort of

01:32 - 16.476 realistic trade off here.

01:32 - 18.956 Is a great question thank you and I also want to thank

01:32 - 22.090 center mccormick and his team for taking a relatively

01:32 - 24.326 small manufacture after one hundred and fifty people

01:32 - 27.326 in bucks county Pennsylvania and an

01:32 - 32.306 understanding that the defense industry in pa is not just wide it's deep

01:32 - 33.176 right so where

01:32 - 35.396 where supplier to supplier to supplier

01:32 - 38.706 and and we are mission critical if we fail.

01:32 - 40.146 Our customer fails

01:32 - 43.275 so and I appreciate the opportunity to share that

01:32 - 47.046 story I think I speak on behalf of a lot of these.

01:32 - 50.816 On the say these community manufacturers across the state of Pennsylvania

01:32 - 52.976 who are head down doing the hard work everyday

01:32 - 56.246 and you drive by these factories every single day

01:32 - 57.856 don't know what goes on in there

01:32 - 01.136 and what goes on in there is hard noble work

01:33 - 01.766 with

01:33 - 05.396 true heroes people that show up everyday caring about what they do

01:33 - 07.403 and as a secretary was talking earlier I could actually

01:33 - 10.776 feel some of the things he was talking about I could feel.

01:33 - 12.636 The hairs on my arm popping up because this is the

01:33 - 14.636 first time I've heard that in twenty five years

01:33 - 15.906 that kind of commitment

01:33 - 16.766 so

01:33 - 18.116 With that being said

01:33 - 22.196 we don't just have an automation issue I can't

01:33 - 24.026 automate forty years

01:33 - 28.406 of production floor knowledge I can't take someone who is on a production floor

01:33 - 30.276 who's been making materials

01:33 - 33.416 twenty first day seven days a week for twenty five thirty years

01:33 - 35.996 and take that knowledge and transfer quickly

01:33 - 38.376 so there's not just this.

01:33 - 41.246 Feed of new employs

01:33 - 43.706 there's this knowledge transfer that needs to happen

01:33 - 45.186 and.

01:33 - 47.726 The challenge that we've always had is

01:33 - 50.966 how a baby boomer or gen x or

01:33 - 51.806 learned

01:33 - 52.886 is very

01:33 - 54.896 very different than how a gen z

01:33 - 56.586 likes to be top.

01:33 - 58.526 So the gap that we have

01:33 - 59.966 is that I've got

01:34 - 01.376 people on the production floor

01:34 - 03.056 who really think like

01:34 - 07.086 you gotta be here two years before you understand what we do

01:34 - 10.916 and I've got someone coming in who is eighteen nineteen twenty one years old

01:34 - 15.036 who does not last eighteen months through that process

01:34 - 19.686 that's been going on for years so it happened is I get a lot of turnover

01:34 - 20.366 of these

01:34 - 21.606 really

01:34 - 23.586 capable young.

01:34 - 25.176 Employees

01:34 - 27.716 who can't manage that learning process

01:34 - 29.276 I've been trying to figure this out

01:34 - 32.576 many manufacturers and workforce development in the state of Pennsylvania

01:34 - 34.346 has been trying to close this gap

01:34 - 38.518 someone talk a little bit about automation under the under the umbrella of AI.

01:34 - 43.172 So we've been able to take that knowledge at collective knowledge by videotaping and

01:34 - 45.596 interviewing our legacy employees

01:34 - 47.816 who really take great pride in what they do

01:34 - 49.406 not to replace them

01:34 - 51.506 not to take that knowledge and transfer it

01:34 - 53.996 but to help them communicate more effectively

01:34 - 55.951 to this incoming generation who really wants a

01:34 - 58.076 pop on their phone and watch a three mo in a video

01:34 - 02.256 as opposed to sit there and shadow someone for eight hours a day.

01:35 - 08.996 We've taken some of our most complex production processes which we estimated to take

01:35 - 10.746 eighteen months

01:35 - 11.996 to be proficient at

01:35 - 14.406 that's down to ninety days.

01:35 - 16.806 Two things happen.

01:35 - 18.626 The legacy employee

01:35 - 23.546 feels that he is literally he or she is leaving their legacy in this business

01:35 - 26.036 because they're proud of the thirty five or forty years

01:35 - 27.956 and now that knowledge that they have

01:35 - 29.546 is being transferred on

01:35 - 31.406 and what I've got to

01:35 - 33.506 I've got a twenty one or twenty two year old

01:35 - 34.556 employee

01:35 - 37.136 who who has that on demand

01:35 - 39.176 I can get what I need when I need it

01:35 - 41.066 to understand how to do this process

01:35 - 43.136 when I'm in trouble how do I do this

01:35 - 45.566 they don't need to be fantastic at

01:35 - 47.456 drilling through software

01:35 - 49.946 they can open up in effect a chat bot and say

01:35 - 51.446 I'm standing on line seven.

01:35 - 52.766 I'm struggling

01:35 - 53.936 what do I do here

01:35 - 55.856 and the collective knowledge I have

01:35 - 58.286 many uses named Glenn he's an amazing guy

01:35 - 59.816 glands now homeless sleep

01:35 - 01.956 Glen used to get the phone call two in the morning

01:36 - 04.516 which is like have a struggling how to make this what do we do.

01:36 - 07.886 Now what happens is that self serve model

01:36 - 10.196 fits with my my gen z's

01:36 - 12.216 then we've also gamified

01:36 - 14.126 the training process

01:36 - 16.076 so what happen ns is

01:36 - 17.426 the world I grew up in

01:36 - 20.406 his will talk about a raise in a year.

01:36 - 23.486 That is a very difficult way to retain young talent

01:36 - 25.956 so what we've done is we've gamified.

01:36 - 27.626 The skills development

01:36 - 30.546 as you master skill you get money

01:36 - 33.326 and so what happens now is that

01:36 - 34.506 your path

01:36 - 35.816 in terms of your growth

01:36 - 37.956 is determined by you

01:36 - 40.126 and they go home and you're like mom dad I got a raise

01:36 - 43.626 didn't you just get a raise last month I got another race.

01:36 - 46.816 So they start to take it onto themselves and what's really

01:36 - 49.736 important about that is that typically who were hiring

01:36 - 54.186 I'm going to loosely define fine as the last two rows of ninth grade English

01:36 - 00.446 and they've not had a really good feeling of pride or purpose

01:37 - 02.796 they'd been told if you don't go to college.

01:37 - 06.266 You're not going to amount to much if you don't go to trade school

01:37 - 07.736 you're not going to make any money

01:37 - 09.836 so often they end up in their basement

01:37 - 11.226 on computers

01:37 - 13.476 dreaming of being a social influencer.

01:37 - 16.826 Or opening a tattoo shop shop or their band is somehow going to make it.

01:37 - 20.496 At some point mom and dad said you gotta get out there.

01:37 - 21.716 They end up often

01:37 - 24.126 and manufacturers just like dunmore

01:37 - 25.106 and

01:37 - 28.826 that is a huge opportunity for us with the right support

01:37 - 29.696 to give them

01:37 - 31.436 pride why are you here.

01:37 - 34.526 You're saving this country you're defending this country

01:37 - 37.481 that gives you purpose you come in every day and what

01:37 - 40.016 you do matters you can connect what you do everyday

01:37 - 42.036 and it gives them pay

01:37 - 46.556 and those are really if we can scale those models and use automation

01:37 - 48.416 to transfer that knowledge

01:37 - 49.344 we can

01:37 - 51.876 much more rapidly

01:37 - 52.466 and

01:37 - 56.286 compress this time frame that we have to up skill people.

01:37 - 58.556 That's really inspirational

01:37 - 00.696 let me ask a follow on that I want to come back

01:38 - 02.984 and maybe ask the panelists to comment a little

01:38 - 05.096 bit on a lie to the extent that you want to

01:38 - 08.526 but so many many commercial manufacturers

01:38 - 10.166 choose not to do

01:38 - 11.376 defense work

01:38 - 13.016 because of all the the

01:38 - 17.316 the compliance costs you know cyber security requirements I tar.

01:38 - 22.106 Deforest flow downs etc so from from where you sit Ron

01:38 - 23.756 are those requirements

01:38 - 26.846 calibrated correctly for an one hundred and fifty person

01:38 - 27.656 company

01:38 - 29.636 and what would make defense work

01:38 - 31.946 more attractive to firms like yours

01:38 - 36.392 love this question and I will speak on behalf of many companies like ourselves this

01:38 - 39.746 is what it feels like when these demands roll down from primes

01:38 - 41.016 to their subs

01:38 - 42.396 to us.

01:38 - 44.376 We feel like a barista

01:38 - 45.026 at

01:38 - 46.656 On a Monday morning.

01:38 - 48.176 At a coffee shop

01:38 - 51.816 and the three other people that are supposedly working there didn't show up that day.

01:38 - 56.286 The demands come through people are throwing orders

01:38 - 59.066 at us we're not sure what matters what doesn't matter

01:38 - 02.756 we can't tell if it's just being pushed down to us or does it really matter

01:39 - 06.806 so one of the challenges that we have is there's no single source of truth

01:39 - 11.976 to understand what we as a sub tier supplier actually need to deliver.

01:39 - 15.386 So it's very easy for a large prime to go here's the

01:39 - 19.416 three and a half inch if you printed it here's a three and a half inch requirement

01:39 - 23.576 and then we go through that requirement and you do start to say we can't do this

01:39 - 27.092 then you talk to the prime it takes a long time to get this done and they're like

01:39 - 31.236 we're only worried about you on this page and this page.

01:39 - 33.626 Very difficult for us to figure that out

01:39 - 35.876 there's no source to go to to say

01:39 - 36.446 hey

01:39 - 39.536 can you help me understand what I really need to deliver here

01:39 - 43.526 and that's something that would be great if it was at a national level

01:39 - 44.966 to understand what we need to do.

01:39 - 47.876 If I could come a real cook it is fantastic and

01:39 - 51.572 the the acquisition transformation strategy at it's heart which the secretary

01:39 - 53.186 announced in November of last year

01:39 - 55.076 and is at at it's coroner

01:39 - 55.796 up

01:39 - 59.816 A vision of reducing bureaucracy and overhead

01:40 - 03.746 doing things which in many cases are common sense things we've been talking about for

01:40 - 05.836 thirty years we just haven't done it and I think

01:40 - 09.466 under the secretary's leadership we finally have a team that's ready to do these things

01:40 - 11.066 the longer term demand signal

01:40 - 12.176 the reduction of

01:40 - 14.256 on the bureaucracy and I'll I'll I'll make a point

01:40 - 16.656 up to things yesterday we announced.

01:40 - 20.946 The suspension of the cybersecurity maturity model certification

01:40 - 22.406 level two in November

01:40 - 24.756 which I recognize.

01:40 - 26.376 Holy cow

01:40 - 29.726 while tell mr mr Davies and mr Duffy

01:40 - 30.686 year as a reporter

01:40 - 33.146 so we're really excited about that because we recognize

01:40 - 35.586 that it has been a tension between cybersecurity

01:40 - 37.466 and the certification process

01:40 - 39.868 and we weren't really getting we're wanting we recognized

01:40 - 42.356 an incredible burden on small businesses from an expense

01:40 - 44.246 and from a difficulty standpoint

01:40 - 46.376 and so we're excited about reframing that

01:40 - 49.354 as an os opt as a tool for us to accelerate

01:40 - 52.826 and improve the experience of existing defense businesses

01:40 - 57.116 but also to encourage new entrants to come in like we want all these new companies

01:40 - 58.286 and on that front we've

01:40 - 00.926 launched our industrial base growth team

01:41 - 03.986 wants links connect at our link software platform

01:41 - 06.086 and they're going to be a devex as well in

01:41 - 07.136 an August

01:41 - 10.316 as a platform for new companies to come in register and receive

01:41 - 11.786 a whole suite of tools

01:41 - 14.066 to basically help them work through those process

01:41 - 15.746 from the cybersecurity piece

01:41 - 17.006 through how to register

01:41 - 18.566 how to go ahead and find customers

01:41 - 20.906 how to actually execute with your department of war

01:41 - 21.836 customer so

01:41 - 24.026 on please take advantage of that register

01:41 - 26.486 and then come to us I mean your industrial base offices

01:41 - 27.666 your offices

01:41 - 28.138 as

01:41 - 32.188 On the apex accelerators ninety plus accelerators in three hundred locations

01:41 - 33.988 they exist solely

01:41 - 37.054 to go ahead and help you go ahead and do business with the department of war

01:41 - 38.798 that is the whole purpose of this enterprise

01:41 - 42.868 one in where you're not getting serviced let me know personally email my office

01:41 - 44.848 find colonel carbery here she'll get my card

01:41 - 47.918 and I would love to know where we're failing.

01:41 - 48.688 Every day

01:41 - 49.868 our offs charter to

01:41 - 51.750 make sure we're improving the industrial base

01:41 - 53.288 the experience for what we're doing

01:41 - 54.768 and we're committed to doing that

01:41 - 56.680 every single way.

01:41 - 57.208 That's great

01:41 - 01.918 so Ron commented on artificial intelligence before and his comments

01:42 - 05.548 would you like to you know offer any any thoughts just how

01:42 - 08.048 this is impacting everything we're talking about tonight

01:42 - 11.038 I'd like to to focus on how AI

01:42 - 14.758 affects the war fight and what that means for the defense industrial base

01:42 - 16.468 so if I have a

01:42 - 17.908 have a single pilot

01:42 - 20.728 to fly a single drone in order to manage it

01:42 - 21.628 I need

01:42 - 24.638 one person in uniform for every drone.

01:42 - 28.168 If I have AI helping me manage the fleet of drones

01:42 - 30.778 I can have one person in uniform

01:42 - 33.148 managing five ten fifteen drowns

01:42 - 35.818 it actually drives up the demand signal

01:42 - 37.648 for the defense industrial base

01:42 - 40.023 and it does what we try to do which is reduce the

01:42 - 42.358 number of people in uniform that are in harm's way

01:42 - 43.018 so I can

01:42 - 45.988 send one helicopter over and put at risk a set of people

01:42 - 49.948 or I can send two hundred drones over into the same area

01:42 - 53.038 without exposing anyone to one of things we often think about is.

01:42 - 56.218 Is AI is replacing people but in the military

01:42 - 59.788 I have it and we had this when we had the the tactical wheeled vehicles conference

01:43 - 01.198 in in Pittsburgh

01:43 - 03.286 if I have several trucks that all follow

01:43 - 05.728 each other and I only need one set of drivers

01:43 - 07.737 I still need the five trucks I need the wheels for

01:43 - 09.801 all the trucks any of the engines for all the trucks

01:43 - 12.928 I can do more with fewer people in harm's way and so

01:43 - 16.978 one of the places we will see this is allowing the department to have

01:43 - 21.778 a greater purchase from industry without needing to ramp up the size

01:43 - 25.498 of the uniform military to keep pace by allowing each person in uniform

01:43 - 28.178 to have a much greater effect on the battlefield.

01:43 - 32.580 I think it's fantastic answer and answer all of that

01:43 - 35.038 leads to more demand for things that are made of metal

01:43 - 36.268 right and chemicals

01:43 - 38.674 and things that are actually going to build in Pennsylvania

01:43 - 41.378 and the workforce I think is going to reflect that additional demand

01:43 - 43.376 but it's also how the workforce is going to

01:43 - 45.238 leverage AI for the future and again I think

01:43 - 48.928 our our nineteen fifties or nineteen world war two I should say.

01:43 - 51.328 Freedom's forge version of you know

01:43 - 53.638 the dirty factory floor and

01:43 - 57.178 the bandana around the head and Rosie the riveter is very good and I think

01:43 - 00.418 we want to honor the legacy there and there's still going to be some of that

01:44 - 04.168 but as we're moving forward we're talking about how to use AI as a copilot

01:44 - 06.268 for that welder for that worker

01:44 - 06.838 and that the

01:44 - 10.198 is going to actually have an incredible array of tools lrs at their disposal

01:44 - 11.608 so much like that one

01:44 - 13.738 pilot or truck driver is going to command

01:44 - 15.598 a fleet of of of

01:44 - 16.838 trucks behind them

01:44 - 20.674 that person that worker at the factory floor is going to run a bunch of machines many

01:44 - 22.048 of them are going to be AI powered

01:44 - 23.838 and they're going to go ahead and give them

01:44 - 25.702 incredible leverage where they might be running

01:44 - 27.238 multiple welds at the same time

01:44 - 29.848 they might be managing specific tasks or machines

01:44 - 31.108 or machining or milling

01:44 - 32.288 all at the same time

01:44 - 35.968 that leverage in that vision of how to get more out of each individual worker

01:44 - 38.798 you still need that skilled trade because they still need no quality

01:44 - 40.188 they know how it's going to work

01:44 - 43.144 they need to go ahead and be able to drive those machines to deliver what we need

01:44 - 44.548 and do it at scale and I think

01:44 - 48.574 that's an incredible unlock for the workforce because it transforms the traditional

01:44 - 51.718 welder job the lathe job one person at one machine

01:44 - 52.378 into

01:44 - 53.908 one skilled trades person

01:44 - 56.188 driving an incredible array of capabilities

01:44 - 57.028 at scale

01:44 - 00.728 and that's a vision we're excited to be a part of and supported for the future.

01:45 - 02.498 So.

01:45 - 05.584 I'm going to put this question to all four of you and Dave I'm going to start with

01:45 - 08.768 you so there's a workforce debate about whether

01:45 - 14.128 the sort of binding constraint is attracting new workers into the defense space or

01:45 - 16.598 keeping the ones that we have

01:45 - 18.658 so quick answer from each of you which is the

01:45 - 21.868 which is the bigger problem attraction or rich tension

01:45 - 26.408 and what intervention do you think would best address then.

01:45 - 29.408 Well when I analogies out to law enforcement

01:45 - 31.708 because this is an issue we're dealing with

01:45 - 32.458 right now

01:45 - 34.448 I mean you have the.

01:45 - 36.988 Do you have the employees that are getting towards

01:45 - 38.238 heading towards retirement

01:45 - 39.688 they did things a certain way

01:45 - 42.468 and then you have brand new police officers that are coming out

01:45 - 44.806 that expect the whole world to be vastly I think you

01:45 - 46.678 I think it's both I think you have to

01:45 - 48.938 focus on both groups.

01:45 - 51.001 Something was said earlier about technology and I

01:45 - 53.218 want to talk about that real quick with the workforce

01:45 - 54.088 so

01:45 - 57.118 In our statewide task force the issue

01:45 - 00.598 and two to address the issue of law enforcement recruitment retention

01:46 - 04.264 one of the number one things that employees said they wanted to see was more

01:46 - 09.398 technology in their job and so this all sort of comes together.

01:46 - 12.784 Because you know they're looking at this world we live in they're seeing the amazing

01:46 - 14.848 things that are happening the technologies out there

01:46 - 16.268 they want to be a part of it

01:46 - 17.863 and so people are leaving to go into jobs

01:46 - 20.438 where they're seeing that type of technology

01:46 - 23.938 and and I also think about friends I know the recently got out of the military

01:46 - 25.709 that were also used to dealing with that type of

01:46 - 27.688 technology they don't want to leave that behind

01:46 - 29.758 and go to your point and.

01:46 - 31.468 Back a few decades

01:46 - 35.828 and so I think that's the key to victory and I think you have to address both.

01:46 - 36.448 Ron

01:46 - 38.758 yeah I must say it's it's both

01:46 - 43.388 it really is both because if I can retain my existing employees.

01:46 - 46.141 By reskilling them and what that means is that

01:46 - 48.311 again we're talking about a manufacturing floor

01:46 - 50.308 really noble people that come in every day

01:46 - 52.598 and they go home dirty.

01:46 - 57.304 When we start when we used to try and put technology in front of them it was like a

01:46 - 59.788 complete re skill you had to send them to school like

01:47 - 02.131 using a keyboard I'm not comfortable doing that

01:47 - 04.318 right these are people that just aren't they

01:47 - 05.068 that's not how they

01:47 - 06.418 they've grown up and developed

01:47 - 08.698 however when you put a ineffective a

01:47 - 11.158 tac microphone in an iPhone camera front of them

01:47 - 15.068 they can beautifully articulate what they do every single deck.

01:47 - 17.228 Week can take that information

01:47 - 20.684 and package that information in a way that makes them

01:47 - 24.368 see their own words come out in an engineering report.

01:47 - 28.708 So what happens is they stop seeing themselves as like oh when can I retire

01:47 - 31.369 and they start to see themselves like ooh I think I can

01:47 - 33.628 contribute to the next generation of workforce here.

01:47 - 37.138 I've seen this myself I've seen this personally own business where

01:47 - 38.872 the conversations moved from

01:47 - 40.858 I just I'm counting the days Ron

01:47 - 42.088 as soon as I can

01:47 - 44.468 get my social security I'm gone.

01:47 - 47.818 Glenn who I talked about earlier Glenn

01:47 - 53.018 just got accepted to penn state for atomic layer deposition.

01:47 - 55.463 At the material school.

01:47 - 58.118 At sixty one years old.

01:47 - 00.428 Right.

01:48 - 07.168 How that helps with attraction is that when my young

01:48 - 10.048 gen z's and Alpha start to show up

01:48 - 11.828 they see a path.

01:48 - 14.158 I don't have to go to school right now

01:48 - 15.878 I can work

01:48 - 17.638 and then I can go back to school

01:48 - 18.838 I can learn here

01:48 - 22.918 and so that too me is the big transition that we're seeing

01:48 - 24.808 is that these these these

01:48 - 30.058 I think of Glen's replacement would euphemistically be described as a troubled teen

01:48 - 31.108 and

01:48 - 35.104 he's been with us for two years and he proudly walked in and was telling me about the

01:48 - 38.018 deposit that he's putting down on his first home.

01:48 - 41.700 Great that is what that looks like because he sees the

01:48 - 44.758 path he sees a long term investment in our organization

01:48 - 48.418 he looks at where we are and says oh okay there's purpose here

01:48 - 50.488 you're not just trying to bring me in

01:48 - 52.688 to extract my time

01:48 - 53.998 and trade me for money.

01:48 - 55.498 There's a purpose

01:48 - 58.318 what I'm doing and if we don't give these gen z's

01:48 - 03.088 HP purpose and passion and pride we're losing a generation of phenomenal

01:49 - 05.408 phenomenal manufacturing workers.

01:49 - 07.538 Thanks for sharing that story Mike.

01:49 - 08.248 So

01:49 - 08.968 I think

01:49 - 10.238 obviously both but

01:49 - 13.384 build freedom and our efforts are really on the attraction in the front end sort of

01:49 - 15.080 piece where we're trying to drive up that sense

01:49 - 16.744 of purpose and meaning for the country and

01:49 - 19.894 now we talk about the you've got to reach the kid in middle school and elementary

01:49 - 22.558 school we literally have programs where you teach it as melt candy

01:49 - 24.128 to talk about casting I mean that's

01:49 - 27.124 you have to start at that level and get them excited about using their hands

01:49 - 29.188 you have to work the pair grunts as we talked about

01:49 - 31.744 because a lot of times the parents were the first in their generation to go to

01:49 - 34.054 college and they're really proud and you've got to convince them

01:49 - 36.418 that their kid go into the trades is not a regression

01:49 - 38.178 you have to talk to the grandparents

01:49 - 40.894 because a lot of the time the grandparents came from the trades

01:49 - 43.648 and they were super excited to have their kid go to college

01:49 - 47.014 think about that you're trying to convince them that their grandkid going back to the

01:49 - 49.198 trades in the factory floor war is a win

01:49 - 53.338 so we have to go ahead and can show them all the benefits from a service standpoint

01:49 - 56.128 from a family standpoint from an income stability

01:49 - 58.040 all those things from a pride and quality

01:49 - 59.878 of life standpoint it's incredibly important

01:50 - 01.408 to tell that story we need to

01:50 - 02.908 to pivot and you know again

01:50 - 05.998 Jenny being the first person or family go to college is amazing

01:50 - 06.598 right

01:50 - 08.360 but Timmy being the first kid in his family

01:50 - 10.288 go back to the trades also should be amazing

01:50 - 12.398 we should be excited about that.

01:50 - 13.108 David

01:50 - 14.068 so I think

01:50 - 14.362 there

01:50 - 14.608 are

01:50 - 15.758 two very different

01:50 - 20.128 challenges on the attraction side is really helping people who don't have

01:50 - 21.368 exposure to

01:50 - 22.678 to eat to people in this

01:50 - 24.888 career path to go and when you think about it

01:50 - 28.498 the number one's determination of what career field you go into is

01:50 - 31.478 what your parents did so when you look at that in the military often

01:50 - 34.678 the military has filled heavily with people whose family relatives friends

01:50 - 36.961 went into the military and then they see it as a

01:50 - 39.238 career path and other people just have no idea of what

01:50 - 41.358 life in the military would be like so they don't

01:50 - 41.938 think about

01:50 - 45.838 helping people understand that through the program the secretary talked about

01:50 - 46.738 is key

01:50 - 49.228 the attention is a very different one it's about

01:50 - 51.508 once they're on board what's the work like what's the

01:50 - 52.628 it's the advancement

01:50 - 55.408 we we also have to remember that at the end of the day

01:50 - 57.898 we're not competing for attention

01:50 - 00.928 between companies inside the defense industrial base

01:51 - 03.238 we're competing between the defense industrial base

01:51 - 04.648 and the entire rest of

01:51 - 05.638 the economy

01:51 - 08.848 and so if and will use software writing as an example

01:51 - 11.398 if somebody is going to get paid more

01:51 - 12.638 to do coding

01:51 - 14.218 for or a computer game

01:51 - 16.948 then they'll get paid to do coding for a missile

01:51 - 20.278 we should expect our country to have extraordinarily good computer games

01:51 - 21.838 and not particularly good missiles

01:51 - 24.578 right and that's sort of an odd thing to say but when you realize

01:51 - 26.638 if you price yourself this way

01:51 - 29.518 you have signal that to the person you're trying to hire

01:51 - 31.018 u-value the game

01:51 - 33.328 you don't value the technology so we always

01:51 - 35.110 Amber as we're doing these things

01:51 - 39.160 we're trying to retain the top talent at every one of these levels whether they're

01:51 - 42.670 engineers or trade crafts or welders because you can lose a ship

01:51 - 45.820 any number of ways and making sure that that talent

01:51 - 48.430 sees that career path is the key to retention

01:51 - 49.910 that's great.

01:51 - 52.340 Okay so let's end with a gut question

01:51 - 56.020 a Pennsylvania high school scene your asked you what job to pursue

01:51 - 59.770 if they want to help build the arsenal of freedom so what do you tell them

01:52 - 00.490 I'll

01:52 - 02.013 take it anywhere.

01:52 - 10.000 There are myriad ways to go out and serve the country number one I'd put that first

01:52 - 11.590 find the way to go ahead and do it

01:52 - 16.210 too if you go ahead and you want to pick a particular skills trade group capability

01:52 - 17.830 think about whether you want to move

01:52 - 19.492 right and go to a program that someplace

01:52 - 21.610 that you want to be you want to buy the beach

01:52 - 23.650 we've got programs for that want to the mountains

01:52 - 25.740 I got programs for that if you want to stay at home

01:52 - 26.860 I got programs for that

01:52 - 29.590 and so it's really around enabling their life choice

01:52 - 31.780 to go to have and build the life that they want

01:52 - 32.990 in those careers

01:52 - 36.556 we want to create pathways that open up however they want to get there there is no

01:52 - 38.890 right or wrong it's about building that future for them

01:52 - 40.260 and I'm excited to guide and.

01:52 - 43.280 Help folks find that way for the future.

01:52 - 45.380 I would just remind

01:52 - 48.370 when we think of the defense industrial base we often think of like

01:52 - 49.640 a tank raid

01:52 - 51.970 the defense department buys everything

01:52 - 54.720 under the sun go to defense logistics agency there the the

01:52 - 57.160 amount of supplies they're buying so I'd first start with

01:52 - 59.140 what is that individuals passion

01:52 - 03.820 because there is some part there's some company there's some technology that depends

01:53 - 05.150 on that skill

01:53 - 07.510 that is part of the defense industrial base whether

01:53 - 09.730 it's a prime or supplier larger small business

01:53 - 11.826 and then the second question becomes as you pointed

01:53 - 13.810 out where you want to work but the type of company

01:53 - 15.020 they're very different

01:53 - 15.580 when you

01:53 - 19.050 have such a large industrial base you have companies that your family own businesses

01:53 - 21.580 you have large businesses you have lots of options

01:53 - 23.860 of different types of places to work

01:53 - 27.010 that's one of the advantages of this career field is

01:53 - 28.280 where you work

01:53 - 31.840 what type of company you and you work you can work in a lot of those different places

01:53 - 33.890 and still pursue your passion.

01:53 - 39.250 You know I would say that a couple of things the first one is

01:53 - 41.580 when I were you know I'm a prosecutor but through the

01:53 - 44.510 course of being a prosecutor when people would leave

01:53 - 46.600 and they ultimately would come back to the job

01:53 - 49.320 the reason they would always cite as they missed the mission

01:53 - 53.260 and I think that you have to find a way to instill in young people

01:53 - 55.330 that sense of mission

01:53 - 57.730 because when you do have that such as

01:53 - 58.850 I mean when I

01:53 - 01.060 joined the Navy myself at the age of eighteen

01:54 - 04.150 then in your life you will constantly be searching out

01:54 - 07.870 being part of something that's a mission for a greater good

01:54 - 11.860 and so that's why when I'm up for me this question I would say is and I do this

01:54 - 14.050 literally every day I sit down with young people

01:54 - 15.460 and expert Lane to them

01:54 - 17.710 the absolute blessing in my life

01:54 - 21.340 from joint from enlisting in the military at a young age

01:54 - 23.890 and it built that sense of mission within me

01:54 - 26.890 it has never left and I know that that's something that would certainly

01:54 - 29.270 attract tons of people

01:54 - 30.830 to this industry.

01:54 - 33.250 Dave thanks for that Ron will give you the less work

01:54 - 34.660 I have to address the

01:54 - 38.140 what I've been dressing for years is that the purpose of a business is profit

01:54 - 42.520 and that's built into the DNA of these kids on the user's kids

01:54 - 44.470 so what we do is we like hey look

01:54 - 47.530 prophets important without without but without

01:54 - 48.340 purpose

01:54 - 49.490 were nothing

01:54 - 53.506 so we lean into the purpose so when people join our organization we don't say we make

01:54 - 55.810 specialty materials for arab space and defense

01:54 - 57.580 what we say is we say

01:54 - 01.360 those satellites which protects and defends and keep our communication open

01:55 - 03.110 you're going to be part of that

01:55 - 06.016 and that's gotta be the trigger there's gotta be purpose

01:55 - 08.650 it's not a job it's a career it's a calling it's a passion

01:55 - 11.080 you have to find ways to tap into that

01:55 - 12.670 with this generation

01:55 - 15.280 it's not just about the job anymore it's about purpose

01:55 - 17.110 what's my purpose and why do I matter

01:55 - 21.380 and they are dying for someone to give them that purpose.

01:55 - 24.020 Build the freedom that us join us.

01:55 - 32.430 This has been an outstanding panel let's give these guys a hand pro get to halfway.

01:55 - 41.135 He's aired and gentlemen please welcome back to the

01:55 - 44.530 stage president and commanding general of army university

01:55 - 47.600 major general Trevor Braden gab.

01:55 - 54.670 Though good morning once again it's

01:55 - 58.636 my distinct honor to introduce our keynote speaker this the twenty second chairman of

01:55 - 00.580 the joint chiefs of staff gen Dan Kane

01:56 - 02.798 general Kane is an f sixteen fighter pilot with more

01:56 - 04.960 than two thousand eight hundred hours in the cockpit

01:56 - 07.061 and on the morning of September eleventh two thousand

01:56 - 09.370 and one he was one of the first pilots in the sky

01:56 - 11.950 flying combat air patrol missions over Washington

01:56 - 13.180 and defending the capital

01:56 - 15.784 he went on to serve in Iraq where he helped lead the

01:56 - 18.010 special operations campaign that crushed the Isis

01:56 - 18.970 caliphate

01:56 - 21.980 and he later served as a Pentagon senior liaison

01:56 - 23.330 to the CIA

01:56 - 26.716 in two thousand and twenty five a commander in chief recalled him from retirement to

01:56 - 29.680 serve as our nation's most senior your military officer

01:56 - 31.040 and I will tell you

01:56 - 33.980 there is no busier man in uniform today.

01:56 - 38.690 He oversees some of the most complex military operations in a generation

01:56 - 40.570 including the operation midnight hammer

01:56 - 43.540 and he's leading the joint force through consequential

01:56 - 45.100 days right now

01:56 - 47.980 that he made time to be at Carlisle this morning

01:56 - 50.690 tells you exactly how much.

01:56 - 52.100 He believes

01:56 - 54.590 in this commonwealth and this summit

01:56 - 57.070 and it's impact on the defense of our nation

01:56 - 00.410 and I will tell you this is sort of a homecoming for the chairman.

01:57 - 03.160 As he spent some time here after graduating from the

01:57 - 03.412 at

01:57 - 05.330 Virginia military institute

01:57 - 08.330 but I will let him elaborate on that if he chooses

01:57 - 12.016 an aviator a warrior and america's senior military officer ladies and gentlemen

01:57 - 14.380 please join me in welcoming back to Carlisle barracks

01:57 - 16.130 general Dan Kane.

01:57 - 24.480 Though well can you guys hear me okay it sounds like it

01:57 - 34.280 alright will Trevor thanks for that.

01:57 - 38.980 That great introduction and thanks to you you and your family for all you do deserve

01:57 - 39.760 Sarah

01:57 - 43.030 mccormick I think is voting but I appreciate his

01:57 - 44.710 invite to do this

01:57 - 46.450 and it is

01:57 - 51.910 always a privilege for me to come back to Pennsylvania and here at the Carlyle

01:57 - 53.510 a quick story

01:57 - 56.020 after graduating from vm my

01:57 - 58.327 my dad dad was a student up here at this

01:57 - 01.880 great institution and I came up here to live.

01:58 - 06.170 In the early days of my professional life

01:58 - 09.580 me with my one page resume

01:58 - 15.820 a pair of khakis a red power tie and a blue blazer believed ideologically

01:58 - 18.603 that I could solve solve the global economic

01:58 - 22.220 crisis right on high street down here in Carlisle.

01:58 - 28.450 So if you'll hang with me imagine young Dan Kane walking to all of the banks with my

01:58 - 31.120 very average economics degree

01:58 - 35.560 and sliding my one page resume slowly across the table

01:58 - 38.060 to that bank manager you're convinced that

01:58 - 40.810 I could solve their problems and I could not

01:58 - 44.600 get hired as a bank teller in Carlisle.

01:58 - 49.130 About twenty minutes later my ties undone

01:58 - 54.706 I'm walking dejectedly down a high street and there's a help wanted sign had a place

01:58 - 57.670 called fast Eddie's billiard parlor and so loon

01:58 - 59.680 and I walked in and a

01:58 - 05.176 gentleman named dick feeling took grace upon me and before I could explain who I was

01:59 - 06.900 he said you're hired and I said what do you want

01:59 - 09.830 me to do surrey says you're going to be a bartender

01:59 - 11.980 and I say I don't know how to make any drinks

01:59 - 15.550 and he says you'll figure it out so I ended up

01:59 - 21.466 working at fast Eddies and then ultimately the gingerbread man down here raise your

01:59 - 23.600 hand if you're a local and you understand the

01:59 - 26.960 g gmail I ran the g man earlier in my life

01:59 - 33.020 which was my first business and entrepreneur experience which was which was great.

01:59 - 36.466 I want to express again my thanks to center mccormick

01:59 - 39.550 and his team for pulling this together along with the

01:59 - 44.020 the leadership here at the war college general breeding camp and the team

01:59 - 49.460 and let's give everyone who put this incredible event together a round of applause.

01:59 - 56.260 Though.

01:59 - 00.160 Looking around this room today I'm humbled

02:00 - 03.760 and inspired by the convergence of talent

02:00 - 07.480 experience and patriotism gathered in this room

02:00 - 15.500 we've got defense CEOs tech pioneers capital allocators investors military officers

02:00 - 20.870 and the way I think about this as the three amigos of america's defense

02:00 - 22.130 funders

02:00 - 23.300 founders

02:00 - 24.620 and fighters

02:00 - 29.060 and you gotta have all three to drive america's combat capability.

02:00 - 34.450 The collective brainpower energy and experience of all of you in this room

02:00 - 39.640 represents what I believe to be america's single single

02:00 - 42.950 greatest strategic advantage

02:00 - 45.400 and that each and every one of you.

02:00 - 50.720 Is a powerful reminder and we may we should never forget this.

02:00 - 53.980 That when we go fight our nation's wars

02:00 - 56.120 we never do it alone.

02:00 - 57.490 It is always

02:00 - 00.170 with our private sector partners.

02:01 - 02.360 Your continued innovation

02:01 - 05.110 your shared commitment to this mission

02:01 - 09.590 are not just helpful my friends it's essential

02:01 - 11.030 and as we look

02:01 - 13.836 at the tapestry in the land state escape the globe

02:01 - 17.050 mobile environment they're operating in right now

02:01 - 19.120 I couldn't be more grateful

02:01 - 20.920 for each and every one of you

02:01 - 23.390 and this is an important time.

02:01 - 25.240 It's complex

02:01 - 26.900 it's dynamic

02:01 - 28.780 and it's consequential

02:01 - 31.070 for our nation's security

02:01 - 34.960 and our shared future the challenges that we face

02:01 - 36.790 right now are global

02:01 - 40.360 they stretch across every domain of war fighting

02:01 - 43.270 and they're evolving simultaneously

02:01 - 44.080 and they

02:01 - 44.816 as

02:01 - 45.596 Time

02:01 - 47.906 and space for leaders

02:01 - 49.316 and risk holders

02:01 - 51.066 to make decisions.

02:01 - 54.116 As the chairman my jobs to look

02:01 - 00.846 across the globe to give the president a set of military options and associated risks

02:02 - 06.362 and then help him and the rest of our national command authority to carefully weigh

02:02 - 09.673 the use of military force the other elements of government

02:02 - 13.686 power to include our economy or energy our alliances

02:02 - 16.616 our partnerships the intelligence that we get

02:02 - 21.326 from our intelligence agencies all to ensure

02:02 - 22.896 an acer

02:02 - 27.096 the safety and security of the united states of america.

02:02 - 30.536 And when I think about global risk today

02:02 - 33.576 that global risk equation

02:02 - 36.266 is extraordinarily complex

02:02 - 40.316 and scaling ongoing operations in the middle east

02:02 - 46.746 more than four years of a brutal conflict in Europe between Russia and Ukraine

02:02 - 51.756 the interests that we we have in securing our southern flank in our own hemisphere

02:02 - 53.216 a nuclear armed

02:02 - 54.566 north Korea

02:02 - 00.456 and China that continues to advance on their own military and strategic objectives

02:03 - 01.796 and all of this

02:03 - 04.776 is happening at the same time.

02:03 - 07.316 Layered on top of all of this

02:03 - 12.066 is this speed now at which information flows

02:03 - 15.686 leaders who stood in our stands before this

02:03 - 16.926 had time

02:03 - 18.036 and space

02:03 - 21.326 to make decisions they had days and weeks

02:03 - 24.816 we're now down to simply seconds

02:03 - 27.186 and every second matters.

02:03 - 30.866 Warfare is no longer

02:03 - 35.676 confined to traditional domains it now stretches literally

02:03 - 37.256 from the sea bed

02:03 - 40.896 to assist lunar space and soon beyond.

02:03 - 45.366 We're fighting and competing in that cognitive space

02:03 - 50.556 the fiscal space the cyberspace case any information space

02:03 - 55.676 and it ranges from feeds on our phones to satellites and everything else

02:03 - 57.876 all at the same time

02:03 - 01.176 and at the same time the very character

02:04 - 05.804 of war is changing driven by unprecedented complexity

02:04 - 09.836 and technological acceleration in areas like AI

02:04 - 13.866 quantum autonomy and drones and these advances

02:04 - 17.166 are driving down quickly

02:04 - 21.146 the cost per iPhone fact and pushing lethal

02:04 - 24.086 and nonlethal capabilities in the hands

02:04 - 27.966 of a lot more actors than we had to deal with before

02:04 - 32.796 and we have to remember right now as both buyers and sellers

02:04 - 33.956 that quantity

02:04 - 39.456 has a quality all of it's own and today that quantity can be built.

02:04 - 40.956 Networked

02:04 - 45.396 and employed much faster than it could before.

02:04 - 46.956 We see this

02:04 - 51.366 emerging all over the world right now on today's battlefields.

02:04 - 56.306 A few years ago it took nation states to put together sophisticated command and

02:04 - 59.156 control structure sensors networks etc

02:04 - 01.346 precision weapons into the fight

02:05 - 05.516 now small teams are doing that literally day over day

02:05 - 08.237 if you walk out to Ukraine and you go to the

02:05 - 11.976 flat you see innovation happening in real time.

02:05 - 15.206 The new reality of modern warfare my friends

02:05 - 19.526 is competition at a speed and velocity that we haven't planned for

02:05 - 23.748 and the integration of AI represents a whole new world

02:05 - 26.996 for the u s military but for our nation as a whole

02:05 - 30.056 fundamentally transforming how we see

02:05 - 31.356 sense

02:05 - 34.586 understand and decide and act

02:05 - 36.566 in modern competition

02:05 - 38.946 and potentially conflict

02:05 - 42.296 and we've got to harness these technologies right now

02:05 - 47.126 and your joint forces entering an era in which real time data

02:05 - 50.876 autonomous systems huh human machine teaming

02:05 - 52.466 is not an option

02:05 - 54.036 it's a requirement

02:05 - 59.546 and that's why events like this here in Pennsylvania the partnerships forged

02:05 - 05.826 tonight between the joint force entrepreneurs investors innovators and like I said.

02:06 - 06.966 Founders

02:06 - 10.016 funders and fighters is so imp important

02:06 - 11.556 you

02:06 - 12.996 are critical

02:06 - 18.366 in this line of effort to ensure that we are prepared if we are called upon.

02:06 - 19.916 It's you in this room

02:06 - 22.106 the people who write the code

02:06 - 25.200 build the sensors design the capabilities

02:06 - 29.276 manufacture the capabilities scale those capabilities

02:06 - 35.996 so that we end up making sure that those young members of our all volunteer force

02:06 - 38.546 have the combat capability

02:06 - 41.036 and capacity that they need

02:06 - 44.166 before I ask them to go do something.

02:06 - 47.316 What I need you to know

02:06 - 50.786 and I know this is simple for me to say

02:06 - 52.286 but hard to do

02:06 - 53.966 is to go faster

02:06 - 54.926 please

02:06 - 57.056 go faster think Boulder

02:06 - 59.366 stay focused on real problems

02:06 - 00.606 that soldiers

02:07 - 01.526 sailors

02:07 - 07.386 airmen marines guardians and coastguards men face every single day

02:07 - 08.916 to everyone

02:07 - 14.136 and I say this having spent time in the private sector and now back in the military

02:07 - 17.526 we all need to deliver quality weapons

02:07 - 19.136 delivered on time

02:07 - 21.056 with shorter lead times

02:07 - 23.990 and at lower costs bring us ideas that can

02:07 - 27.326 survive first contact with the acquisition enemy

02:07 - 30.186 and scale at the speed of relevance

02:07 - 34.776 and work with us work with us to break down the bureaucracy

02:07 - 37.686 that slows all of us down

02:07 - 41.496 and we owe you a few things as well my friends

02:07 - 45.746 we owe you to be better buyers to write better contracts tracks

02:07 - 50.096 to be more predictable in our asks and we're working on this

02:07 - 52.256 but we cannot do this alone

02:07 - 54.656 and I appreciate the efforts

02:07 - 57.176 the leadership and the actions

02:07 - 02.516 that congress is doing on both sides of the congress and on both sides of the aisle

02:08 - 04.736 to help us properly arm

02:08 - 06.596 america cause joint force

02:08 - 08.666 before we need to go use it.

02:08 - 11.406 So we got all keep going.

02:08 - 12.896 Collectively

02:08 - 14.786 we all have to have

02:08 - 18.216 a deep and shared sense of urgency

02:08 - 21.476 and a clear eyed understanding of risk we must

02:08 - 25.146 move together with speed and proficiency precision

02:08 - 27.576 to build a joint force

02:08 - 30.186 and a more innovative joint force

02:08 - 34.236 and when I think about innovation I think about legacy

02:08 - 37.376 and as Americans not america cats

02:08 - 42.176 we've done this numerous times in all of you are great Americans.

02:08 - 47.666 Right here in Pennsylvania that tenacity and grit has shown itself

02:08 - 48.656 time

02:08 - 52.146 and time again through the history of our nation

02:08 - 55.796 and this nation is a country that leans into hard problems

02:08 - 58.056 that attacks challenges

02:08 - 03.692 that is entrepreneurial at the core of our being stretching back more than two two

02:09 - 06.876 hundred and fifty years of our American history.

02:09 - 10.524 We've spanned this continent with steel rails that became

02:09 - 14.456 america's railroad systems we map the bottom of the ocean

02:09 - 15.696 we've walked

02:09 - 18.656 on the moon and soon will walk on Mars

02:09 - 21.866 and in the dark days of world war two

02:09 - 24.176 we didn't just fight for forward

02:09 - 26.736 we mobilize this nation.

02:09 - 31.154 We innovated and we transformed an entire industrial

02:09 - 35.096 base to meet the needs of those eighteen year old kids

02:09 - 38.976 out at the front edge of the fight closing with our enemy

02:09 - 42.066 and a lot of it happened right here in Pennsylvania.

02:09 - 47.336 In Butler the emerge American bantam car company took an idea and in

02:09 - 50.096 forty nine days created the Jeep

02:09 - 52.926 something that still exists today.

02:09 - 57.146 In eddystone and Burnham the Baldwin locomotive works

02:09 - 00.686 made more than twenty four hundred tanks along with

02:10 - 04.436 locomotives and ship propellers that the army and Navy

02:10 - 06.726 needed to get to the fight.

02:10 - 11.666 In the cold war we faced a different kind of set of challenges we out competed

02:10 - 13.016 out innovated

02:10 - 18.002 out men hoovered and out thought our adversaries for more than forty years and

02:10 - 20.846 imposed costs that resulted in a much more

02:10 - 22.716 peaceful world.

02:10 - 25.256 The entire history

02:10 - 26.846 of our great nation

02:10 - 28.046 is built

02:10 - 30.426 on a simple premise.

02:10 - 33.066 When we can come together

02:10 - 35.496 and be bring our best ideas

02:10 - 37.836 and focus together

02:10 - 39.786 on a common purpose.

02:10 - 41.966 There is literally.

02:10 - 43.406 Nothing

02:10 - 45.276 we cannot do

02:10 - 50.492 and I believe the next banham the next Baldwin the next breakthrough challenges the

02:10 - 52.196 next breakthrough that changes the

02:10 - 54.146 fundamental tapestry three

02:10 - 57.606 of the way we're going to fight and win our nation's wars.

02:10 - 00.336 Is sitting in this room right now.

02:11 - 02.867 There's an example just down the river on the

02:11 - 05.526 south side of the river the new cumberland.

02:11 - 08.436 Delay facility in susquehanna

02:11 - 12.296 this distribution center sits at the nexus of

02:11 - 15.366 what we need to do to be able to supply

02:11 - 16.706 the joint force

02:11 - 21.542 and I have definitely learned in the time that I've been in this job that old adage

02:11 - 24.246 that professionals really do logistics.

02:11 - 26.066 It is one of the great

02:11 - 28.376 areas of exclusivity

02:11 - 31.446 that the united states of america has

02:11 - 33.296 we can go do things

02:11 - 36.026 at the time and place of our choosing

02:11 - 41.456 because of facilities and teams like those here at delay in Pennsylvania Mya.

02:11 - 43.206 These folks

02:11 - 44.406 are

02:11 - 46.256 innovating all the time

02:11 - 48.506 working with the private sector

02:11 - 53.796 companies like home depot and Walmart and utilizing commercial technologies.

02:11 - 58.196 That range from power by the sh sh p

02:11 - 01.446 and looking at e r p management systems.

02:12 - 03.632 Debate on the spot.

02:12 - 05.422 They are founders

02:12 - 07.192 and entrepreneurs

02:12 - 08.462 at their core

02:12 - 10.282 they are problem solvers

02:12 - 11.522 at their core

02:12 - 15.562 and it's places like this spread all around the joint force

02:12 - 18.472 enabling us to go do the things

02:12 - 22.402 that our commander in chief and you will ask us to do

02:12 - 25.252 that requires an innovative spirit

02:12 - 26.792 that is.

02:12 - 27.652 Amazing

02:12 - 32.672 and an exclusive thing that the united states has more than anybody else.

02:12 - 35.840 What's common about all these things whether it's

02:12 - 39.562 tanks or railroads or the capability to delay does

02:12 - 41.902 what's common about all of it

02:12 - 43.622 is teamwork.

02:12 - 46.072 Teamwork between the private

02:12 - 47.222 sector

02:12 - 48.712 and the public sector

02:12 - 51.242 teamwork between the military

02:12 - 54.422 and companies that bring military capability

02:12 - 56.792 we have done this before

02:12 - 59.744 and we've got to do this again because of

02:12 - 03.322 the distance between your company's workplace

02:13 - 07.652 and our folks on the edge of the tactical empire

02:13 - 10.172 is incredibly small.

02:13 - 13.492 The distance between you and the Abraham Lincoln

02:13 - 17.002 the distance between you and that pack three operator

02:13 - 21.502 the distance between you and that at thirty five squadron is minuscule

02:13 - 23.632 and I would be remiss

02:13 - 26.032 if I did not talk about service

02:13 - 27.532 and you all

02:13 - 30.662 you all would be incredibly proud

02:13 - 32.032 every single day

02:13 - 34.462 of what your joint for horses doing

02:13 - 36.412 all over the world

02:13 - 37.982 right now.

02:13 - 42.652 But I'll tell you and I'll ask you and I'll remind you that service in our nation

02:13 - 44.762 can take many forms

02:13 - 48.592 can be in the military it can be in the fire department and

02:13 - 50.332 it can be in the private sector

02:13 - 53.752 one thing that is clear and unambiguous

02:13 - 56.212 about this country and this state

02:13 - 02.038 is this fabric of service that runs through our DNA as Americans here in Pennsylvania

02:14 - 04.102 in general brig and hamp talked about it.

02:14 - 07.262 This is a special special place.

02:14 - 10.352 You are keystones the American revolution

02:14 - 12.212 the industrial revolution

02:14 - 16.862 the cold war and every conflict we've been in ever since then.

02:14 - 19.602 I'm reminded that Pennsylvania is the birthplace

02:14 - 21.892 of people like general George Marshall

02:14 - 23.542 and general hap Arnold

02:14 - 27.722 and I obviously borrow a lot from Marshall in my day job

02:14 - 30.472 and I'm grateful for all of the efforts

02:14 - 35.462 that Pennsylvania and all of you do who've come here for this great event.

02:14 - 38.522 I'm very grateful for this

02:14 - 40.492 and as I conclude today

02:14 - 42.082 as I often do

02:14 - 43.132 I ask

02:14 - 45.022 each and every one of us

02:14 - 50.972 who are in this incredible venue today to remember our soldiers sailors

02:14 - 51.892 airmen

02:14 - 53.192 marines

02:14 - 54.262 guardians

02:14 - 55.892 and coast guardsmen.

02:14 - 58.652 Who as we speak right now.

02:14 - 01.202 The sun setting in the middle east

02:15 - 03.512 are going out into the darkness

02:15 - 05.672 to do our nations work.

02:15 - 07.972 They go out there so we can be here

02:15 - 11.632 they go out there because that's what our country needs them to do

02:15 - 14.462 and they go out there to keep us safe.

02:15 - 16.142 Lastly

02:15 - 17.842 I ask all of us

02:15 - 19.862 to remember our fallen.

02:15 - 23.422 Who gave us the gift of the ultimate sacrifice

02:15 - 25.402 and their families

02:15 - 27.172 who continue to show us

02:15 - 28.322 what courage

02:15 - 30.232 tenacity and grit

02:15 - 32.222 really looks like.

02:15 - 36.532 Thank you all thank you to senator mccormick his team and leadership

02:15 - 38.632 who allowed us to be here today

02:15 - 43.048 I also want to thank the Pennsylvania state police for not giving us a ticket as we

02:15 - 45.512 did about one hundred and twenty down the road.

02:15 - 51.652 For all of you I hope this conference this summit is an incredible two days

02:15 - 55.822 I know the secretary and the president are looking forward to spending time with you

02:15 - 58.252 thank you for letting me be here today

02:15 - 02.552 god bless you all god bless america and god bless our joint force.

02:16 - 14.112 Then.

02:16 - 29.722 And

02:16 - 30.842 and.

02:16 - 38.842 It.