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How to Fix Defense Procurement - by Santi Ruiz - Statecraft

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We’ve been interested in how the federal government decides to buy things for a while: see past installments on biotech, oil, Afghan infrastructure contracting, NASA, challenge prizes, DARPA, and so on. But none of these topics has been quite as salient in recent years as how the government procures military equipment. There’s a growing Washington consensus that we simply can’t buy the weapons we need, in the quantities we need, on the timelines we need. To better understand what’s going wrong, we talked to Dr. Arun Seraphin. Dr. Seraphin (the doctorate is from MIT, in Electronic Materials) has served in many roles, including as a Congressional staffer, an Assistant Director at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and (currently) Executive Director of The Emerging Technologies Institute at the National Defense Industrial Association. But we spoke to him about something else: Seraphin just finished serving as a commissioner on a 14-person “blue ribbon commission” to

Statecraft How to Fix Defense Procurement 28 1 3 1× 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -48:13 -48:13 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. How to Fix Defense Procurement What's a blue ribbon commission good for anyway? Santi Ruiz Sep 19, 2024 28 1 3 Share Transcript We’ve been interested in how the federal government decides to buy things for a while: see past installments on biotech , oil , Afghan infrastructure contracting , NASA , challenge prizes , DARPA , and so on. But none of these topics has been quite as salient in recent years as how the government procu

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