Larsen Jensen
I have stood on two podiums that changed my life: the Olympic medal stand and a Navy SEAL team room. The lesson was the same. Standards win. When you uphold the standard, you earn the right to expect victory. That is true in the pool, on the battlefield, and in the lab.
Today, America faces a test that will be decided not by speeches but by outcomes. We must deter wars abroad while crushing threats at home from narco-terrorists and cyber gangs to regimes racing to dominate AI, energy, and manufacturing. The good news is that American technology was born for this moment. And the new capital of that resurgence is not the Silicon Valley of yesterday. We are seeing the rise of new innovation hubs where engineers, operators, and entrepreneurs are quietly building the tools that will define the next American century.
During my deployments, I saw how the right technology in the right hands could transform missions. But too often our system delivered the opposite: yesterday’s technology tomorrow. Procurement was designed to favor incumbents instead of results. That has to change. Warfighters deserve equipment that works now, not promises for later.
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