Many people don’t realize that Tom Hank’s famous line in Apollo 13 is actually a mashup of two separate quotes spoken by astronaut Jim Lovell. “Hey, we’ve got a problem here” served to get NASA mission controls attention, and when the capsule communicator asked for Lovell to repeat the message he said, “Houston, we’ve had a problem; we’ve had a Main B bus undervolt.” But that’s a trivial digression.
Look, I know I’ve spent a lot of time writing about how Defense Tech and Dual Use startups can compete against primes, and why it’s important.
I’ve talked about using a roll-up strategy to create a new prime.
But events of the past few weeks have left me searching for new strategies and questioning how to best deliver innovation to the Defense Department.
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