I know it's cherrypicking but: >The DOD needs to look at a startup/agile mentality Please god NO! That's a really a bad idea not just for the DOD but for most

I know it's cherrypicking but: >The DOD needs to look at a startup/agile mentality Please god NO! That's a really a bad idea not just for the DOD but for most government services. 90+% of startups fail. This is fine because most startups are not very essential. Government is often inefficient, but it rarely outright fails. Can you imagine how a government run as a startup would be? Garbage collection went bankrupt the other day, won't be another five months until another one is spun up. Oh yeah we haven't implemented the fire department yet, your house might be on fire now but we have it on the roadmap for Q4 2021 so please hold on until then. Oh your wife is in the hospital? We were running an A/B test on that so she's in the part without blood transfusions. Hope everything goes well! When you are taking a VC bet on to get a startup off the ground, many things are acceptable that are not really feasible if people depend on your continued existence for at least the coming decades. Don't be overly impressed by the Russians and/or Chinese either btw. They suffer from the exact same problems, but "the grass is greener on the other side" is true in defence matters as much as in the rest of life.