06 May 2024

American Prosperity is National Security | Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar

  

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National security.
For insiders. By insiders
Conclusion 
At some point, we either believe in free markets, the innovation, and the resultant prosperity it has brought the United States, or we don’t. 
Based on the laws, regulations, and behaviors that drive government acquisition and contracting today, it is clear that Congress and the Defense Department do not. 
  • Cost-plus contracting is creating zero-sum dynamics and impeding the natural flow of capital and talent toward America’s national security challenges. 
  • And besides being anti–free market, it is shifting all innovation risk to the taxpayer and away from those who can and should bear the burden: private industry.
But there is a way out that benefits us all
Improving the value of America’s primes is good for investors, good for the Department of Defense, and good for defense tech new entrants. 
  • The rise of the defense tech ecosystem, with more nontraditional start-ups than ever before, is not a challenge to the health of America’s traditional primes. 
  • On the contrary, their rise can and should be sustained by their seasoned hardware peers. 
This is why, as the chief technology officer of a software company and supporter of new entrants, I am comfortable making the case for stronger hardware primes. 
America needs every contributor in our entire ecosystem — hardware and software providers, primes and start-ups — healthy and aligned. 
One way to ensure this is to embrace what has sustained American innovation from the beginning: the free market and private capital.

WHY INCREASING THE VALUE OF DEFENSE PRIMES IS GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY


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