An official at one attending company said the expectation among the invitees is that it would be a “listening session,” (similar to the speech Hegseth delivered to a room of reticent general and flag officers in September.) The memo, which draws attention to “unacceptably slow acquisition fielding times” represents a dramatic restructuring of the way the Pentagon buys and builds things, moving away from the sorts of large-scale, multi-year programs that produce fighter jets, aircraft carriers, tanks, and personnel carriers, toward smaller, faster contracting vehicles, which are more representative of software design and re-design. Major cloud companies such as Google, Microsoft, AWS, and Oracle are also on the list, and are all part of the Pentagon’s $9 billion dollar Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability cloud contract and data software maker Palantir.
Author: Patrick Tucker
Published at: 2025-11-05 22:35:16
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