Despite the pace of global technological change, the United States military-indu

strial complex may never be truly disrupted. We need it too much. We need a robust
inventory of purely
public defense platforms like warships, warplanes, and advanced munitions. And w
e need the defense base that can build them
that highly consolidated core of trad
itional prime
contractors working within a system that has proven nearly impervious to smaller
, more agile non-traditional companies, particularly those in Silicon Valley.