Army Secretary Dan Driscoll said last week that large defense contractors must adapt to a more efficient procurement model if they want to stay in the game, Breaking Defense reported.
“I will measure it as success if in the next two years, one of the primes is no longer in business, and the rest of them have all gotten stronger,” he told the TBPN podcast.
Driscoll is among multiple Pentagon officials who come from private equity and venture capital.
He said on the podcast that companies in the defense industrial base will realize the Pentagon is operating differently now.
“My best guess is that they will start to realize in the coming days, weeks and months, that they are going to have to adapt and change or die,” Driscoll said. “We are not going to come to bail them out again as a nation.”
Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Mejia
