Shyam Sankar
2026 has started with a bang: Delta Force’s spectacular snatch-and-grab raid in Venezuela, the ‘1979-in-reverse’ revolution brewing in the streets of Iran, the hunt for sanctioned shadow fleet tankers on the high seas, President Trump’s tough love for the primes, and much more.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s speech at Starbase, Texas earlier this week deserves a place on that list. History will look back on that speech and the reforms it unveiled as an inflection point for the Pentagon in how it acquires new technology and uses autonomy to fight and win wars. Let’s hope we remember this as the moment the long hangover from the Last Supper ended and the table was set for the First Breakfast, with plenty of seats for new entrants, innovators, and heretical heroes. Or as Secretary Hegseth put it, the old era “created a closed innovation ecosystem dominated by just a handful of prime contractors. . . . Today that old era comes to an end.”
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